From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 17 17:46:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BEA537B400 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from altern.org (altern.org [80.67.174.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A38943E42 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:46:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottman@altern.org) Received: (qmail 15116 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2002 00:39:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Aug 2002 00:39:55 -0000 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 02:39:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Subject: Why Disklabel shows my DOS partition? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20020818004649.8A38943E42@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear helping spirit, While trying to install FreeBSD for the first time on my PC, I come up with an error message when using the FreeBSD Disklabel Editor create or auto default options. It mentions that my disk is to big... Even when specifying the 30 mb suggested minimum! Prior of entering the Disklabel Editor, in the FDisk Partition Editor, I changed the type of a 1.6 gig ext2 linux partition to a FreeBSD (165) one. I then had a FAT partition of 6 gig, an extended partition of 1.7 gig and my new FreeBSD partition. Accepting these settings and entering the Dislabel Editor I find a DOS partition listed of 6 gig? This is where I cant seem to change to the FreeBSD partition previously created... And when trying to create a new partition, I get the disk to big error suggestion. Any help on this subject would be more than welcome since I really want to become BSD user! Thanks Scottman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message