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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please Help!!! Date: 1 Dec 1996 21:18:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <57ssng$h3q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <00001c8a+00004889@msn.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Northint@msn.com (Bernard Hartog) wrote: > I followed it's instructions on creating a new partion. (I selected > an unused section and press 'C' and left all the default > information). It created a partion called FREEBSD and I press 'Q' to > continue. I then got to the next section and everytime I tried to > press 'A' for auto-configuration or anything else it said Not Enough > Space for defaults. (I know there's over 500 mb availible on drive C, > and 1.08g on drive D). Perhaps you've accidentally forgotten to first delete the (DOS) partition you intended to ``recycle''? Then, it's quite possible that the part of the disk you've assigned to FreeBSD now is just only the remainder behind the last integral ``cylinder'' boundary, that messy DOS wasn't able to use. It's usually only one or two megabytes, so it's no surprise that the FreeBSD defaults didn't fit, is it? :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)