Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 22:07:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Cameron Burley <cbur2@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970818220647.2488U-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33F80260.A0426D13@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>
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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Cameron Burley wrote: > Hi, I'm installing FreeBSD, as a first time installation, on a PCI P-100 > with 16mb ram, 850mb IDE hdd. The problem I'm having is that whenever I > go to create a FreeBSD partition with the <C> command, to create a > slice, I enter the amount required (250M), press enter and the partition > dosen't appear so i can set it bootable. Likewise, it dosen't appear in > the next step to create swap files etc in the newly created FreeBSD > slice. Is this a harddrive problem? I've checked the <G> geometry option > and the hd is as it is in the bios... any suggestions? Make sure the selection bar is on space marked `unused' before using the <C> option. I don't suggest changing the geometry with the <G> option unless you're having serious trouble. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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