From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 16 04:27:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA15137 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 04:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA15129 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 04:26:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA20424; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:26:45 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199711161226.NAA20424@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Installation woes In-Reply-To: <346EA65C.17E974B1@blrp24.verifone.com> from Jose Thomas at "Nov 16, 97 01:23:00 pm" To: jose@blrp24.verifone.com (Jose Thomas) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:26:44 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jose@blrp24.verifone.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello FreeBSD geeks, > > I am trying to Install FreeBSD on my Pentium PC. I partioned the hard > disk to have a FreeBSD swap and filesystem partition. I have Linux > already installed on another partition. But when I try to make my only > filesystem partition as root, I get a message saying something like the > partition is too big or there is something wrong with the location. > Well I tried sizes varying from 20M to 300M for the root partition and > still no luck. What am I doing wrong? You assumed that FreeBSD is Linux :-) You should be aware of some differences during install: o You need only one disk partition to install FreeBSD. This partition (called "slice" in FreeBSD parlance) holds both swap and file systems. o The disk partition MUST be a primary partition. FreeBSD won't install on a logical partition. If this does not help, provide us with more detailed information about your hardware configuration, FreeBSD release and your desired disk layout. Wolfgang