Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:42:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Nessus <root@vt.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems creating a new partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961204214122.7328O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961203162852.4694A-100000@localhost>
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Nessus wrote: > I'm having some problems creating a new FreeBSD partition on a new > HD i just recently installed. The partition is on the first 400M of the > drive, which is the slave on the primary IDE chain (the boot drive is the > master). > I run sysinstall, and use the partition editor to delete the > partition (it was initally DOS), and create a FreeBSD partition in it's > place. Then I "W"rite out the changes and it says: > "Wrote Fdisk Partition Information out successfully" > Next I go to the label editor and try to create the actual FS (using > "C"reate and using all avilable space.), however when I write out those > changes, it core dumps. Do NOT use 'W'rite!! Just 'Q'uit and use the main 'Commit' button. Write is busted in sysinstall. > One possible problem is that I'm using a CDROM from an older version of > FreeBSD (2.0.5) than what I'm running (2.1.5), but I'm running sysinstall > off of the HD, and it shouldn't even need to touch the CD (should it). Why would you want to install 2.0.5 using 2.1.5 sysinstall? If anything, you'd want to get a 2.1.5 or later CDROM and install that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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