FreeBSD problems..

[oniq]

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6.2 on my laptop. I got two partitions that I created with Partition Magic 7: The first is my main Windows 2000 partition with ~15gigs of space. The second would be where I want to install FreeBSD with about 5gigs of space. Those are both of the partitions on my 20gig hard drive. When I get to the disklabelling screen in the FreeBSD install and I try A for Auto Defaults I get: "Unable to create the root partition. Too big?" Is there a way to fix this?

 

[n0cmonkey]

This is a primary partition right?

Try creating a root partitions of say 100MB and see what happens.

 

[oniq]

I get the same thing when I try to Create. It is a primary partition.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Did you delete any previous partitions and create new ones in the FreeBSD installer (excluding the Windows partition of course)?

 

[oniq]

No, but will that destroy my current Windows partition setup or will it only create/destroy the original partition made? I already have Windows installed on it and don't want to lose all my stuff.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: oniq
No, but will that destroy my current Windows partition setup or will it only create/destroy the original partition made? I already have Windows installed on it and don't want to lose all my stuff.

Delete the non-Windows partition and recreate it through the FreeBSD installer. Dont touch the Windows partition and it *should* be fine.

 

[oniq]

Okay, I will give it a try. Be back soon Thanks for your responses.

 

[oniq]

Okay, I'm typing this from my main PC and it worked! Its installing now, hopefully my Windows stuff is still there (I'm sure it is, didn't touch that partition). Thanks for your help.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: oniq
Okay, I'm typing this from my main PC and it worked! Its installing now, hopefully my Windows stuff is still there (I'm sure it is, didn't touch that partition). Thanks for your help.

Thank google.com. Found a similar problem (same error) on geocrawlers.com or something through google.

 

[oniq]

Alright, it worked. I was able to install FreeBSD (quite quickly, actually). I can't believe how much easier FreeBSD has gotten to install since 4.0 even. Just got to see if I can optimize it a bit for my laptop configuration. Thank you, and google too .