Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:23:23 -0800 From: walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from CDROM, errors Message-ID: <3E3451CB.2050309@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b107gf$1a4g$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> References: <b107gf$1a4g$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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Damien U wrote: > Hello, > > I will firstly say that although I am not experienced with freeBSD, I have been using Linux for some time. I obtained the first ISO in the set for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE last saturday, here are the problems I have been experiencing whilst attempting to install it. > 2) Cannot create partition for FreeBSD > > I can create a "slice" for freeBSD in fdisk, but it calls the partition "X". When I go to commit the changes to hard drive and start the install, freeBSD complains that it cannot find "/dev/X". I have found no way to correct the name in fdisk. > > Here is my partition table as reported by cfdisk under linux: > > Name Part Type FS Type Size (MB) > ------------------------------------------ > hda1 Primary NTFS 20974.47 > hda2 Primary Ext3 10487.24 > hda3 Primary Linux Swap 205.64 > hda5 Logical FAT32 10511.91 > hda6 Logical Reiserfs 10692.87 > hda7 Logical Reiserfs 10001.95 > Logical Free Space 17149.71 The BSD family of operating systems must be installed in a 'primary' partition, i.e. those numbered from 1 to 4. More correctly, the root partition / must be in a primary partition -- FreeBSD will happily use a 'logical' partition for any other partition, but not for /. You could copy your ext3 filesystem into a logical partition in free space and then install FBSD in hda2 -- or ad0s2 as FBSD would call it. I understand that this restriction is not theoretically necessary, but just because the bootloader (and perhaps other code) has never been extended to use logical partitions. I would guess that FBSD 4.7 will not even let you attempt to create a partition in the free space, but I can't recall for sure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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