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Date:      Fri, 08 Jun 2001 21:40:35 +0800
From:      John Summerfield <summer@os2.ami.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   4.2 Install problem
Message-ID:  <200106081340.f58DeaK01279@possum.os2.ami.com.au>

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I go through the motions of creating a slice, there's no error message 
and no slice.


Am I right to think 4.2 won't install on this drive without drastic 
measures?


[root@possum /root]# sfdisk -lx /dev/hda
 
Disk /dev/hda: 1108 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 
0
 
   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+      1       2-    16033+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2          2    1107    1106   8883945    5  Extended
/dev/hda3          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
/dev/hda4          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
 
/dev/hda5        654+   1107     454-  3646723+  83  Linux
    -              2+    448     447-  3590527    5  Extended
    -              2       1       0         0    0  Empty
    -              2       1       0         0    0  Empty
 
/dev/hda6          2+    448     447-  3590496   83  Linux
    -              2+      2-      0         0    0  Empty
    -              2+      2-      0         0    0  Empty
    -              2+      2-      0         0    0  Empty
 
[root@possum /root]#

The space I was hoping to use is currently occupied by hda6; at the 
time of the attempt it was free space.

I now have the impression that the space must be in one of the areas 
described in the partition table entries in the MBR - hda1-4. Is this 
so?


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John Summerfield

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