From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 13:02:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA26194 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:02:57 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA26150 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:02:49 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA02263 ; Mon, 5 Jun 95 16:02:45 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sIfdj-0006SmC; Mon, 5 Jun 95 13:08 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: More thoughts on the installer To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:08:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506050418.VAA19935@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 4, 95 09:18:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 975 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > X means "couldn't assign a name" which means that you're all out of > partitions. You can have seven per slice: [abd-h] I could not find the number 7 documented but that could just be me. :) I encountered /dev/X when trying to get FreeBSD installed on a disk that has 2099 cylinders. I am using OS/2 Boot Manager with a DOS and an OS/2 partition. This leaves about 50 mb below the 1024 cylinder limit ... as OS/2 BM requires a partition to be completely within the 1024 cylinder limit to add said partition to the boot menu. So, I made a small BSD partition then another one for the rest of the disk. BSD recognized the small partition but /dev/X'd the other one... that is with a 1mb primary partition for Boot Manager, a 320mb primary DOS partition, a 128mb extended OS/2 partition ... then BSD. This is a different limitation than the one you describe? *Can* I have more than one slice per disk now? -- Jan Isley jan@bagend.atl.ga.us