Am trying to get FreeBSD installed on my computer
and am having a problem with the hard drive section
of the installation.
I bought my pentium PC from a company I was working for and
they said they could install Debian Linux on the system
for me. They installed the base system, but they
couldn't get the boot manager working and I could never
install any new packages or get dpkg to work. I
spent several days trying to get Linux going properly
and have finally given up.
Was reading the information on FreeBSD at
http://www.freebsd.org and thought perhaps this might
work better than Linux has for me. The installation
process sounded much simpler. I got as far as
the disk label editor screen and I got stuck. Am getting an
error of 'Unable to create the root partition. Too big?' when
I select the a (auto default) option. Below is the information
on my hard drive. I have a 4 Gig drive and was hoping to
install FreeBSD over the Linux sections of the drive.
>From FDISK Partition Editor Screen:
Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 4192902 4192964 wd0s1 2 fat 6
4192965 2056320 6249284 wd0s2 4 extended 5
6249285 176715 6425999 wd0s3 1 linux_swap 130
6426000 2040255 8466254 wd0s4 1 ext2fs 131
8466255 945 8467199 - 6 unused 0
Is there any way to get FreeBSD up and running with this
hard drive without interfering with the programs already on
drive C (first hard drive partition)? Can anyone walk me
through what changes I need to make to my drive to get this
to work? The help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.
Laura Michaels
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