GMail threadding don't fail me now! On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com>wrote:
> This is a pretty easy problem to replicate if you are pressing W, and that > "issue" has existed for quite some time. If you press W then Q at > sysinstall fdisk then attempt to force write disklabel screens you will get > the error. Just setup the slices and partitions as you want and let > sysinstall handle the writing of information. There is a big warning box > that says not to use force write except under certain conditions and this is > not one of them. > > If you google the error message in the OP, the first result is: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1675 > > > pressing 'W' was a last resort option, by no means was I starting off that way. > Failing that, I can't see other than a hardware issue, unless somehow >> sysinstall is broken and you may do better manually running fdisk and >> bsdlabel and newfs per Handbook and manuals? >> > > This doesn't say hardware error to me at all, at least not a disk hardware > issue. The message was present across two disks, and if there truly is a > problem writing to the media a complete zeroing of the drive would be > apparent then. > > No, only one disk. > While we're getting people to look at sysinstall and the auto resizing, it > would be nice to get the "Unable to create the partition. Too big?" issue > resolved. You can trigger this by auto-sizing the partitions, deleting a > couple and recreating one that a different size than one autosize > suggested. Then create the second partion using the auto-populated value in > partition size box. Typically run into this when making / a little bigger > on amd64 installs by borrowing some space from /usr. It's very tedious to > slowly decrease the size of the second partition in your attempts to create > it if you're trying to utilize the whole drive. > > > -- > Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"