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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with install Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:21:18 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31F64D7E.5F5C@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31d15c79.1125287@news.novagate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Nate Hillila wrote: > > I am trying to install ver 2.1. The floppy boots fine, then I choose > novice installation. The problem is when I try to select a partition > for it. I have about 120MB free disk space on my only hard drive, but > the installer detects that I have no free space. What am I doing > wrong? Is that "free space" part of a defined partition already? To use space for FreeBSD (or any other operating system), it can't already be allocated to an existing OS on the drive. At this point, probably your easiest approach is to defrag your drive and then use the fips utility. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |