Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:26:44 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> To: jose@blrp24.verifone.com (Jose Thomas) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jose@blrp24.verifone.com Subject: Re: Installation woes Message-ID: <199711161226.NAA20424@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <346EA65C.17E974B1@blrp24.verifone.com> from Jose Thomas at "Nov 16, 97 01:23:00 pm"
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> 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
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