On 11/27/07, Dennis Melentyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 2007/11/27, Stefano Spinucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I encountered some problems installing FreeBSD 7 beta 2 on my Dell > > D610 laptop, on the original 60 gb hd; the hd is formatted as follows: > > - primary 1, 15 gb, ntfs for Windows XP > > - primary 2, 15 gb, solaris for Open Solaris > > - primary 3, 10 gb, fat32 for FreeBSD > > - extended, 20 gb, 3 partitions for linux > > > > I tried to install FreeBSD many times, but after the geometry error > > (the geometry is however correctly recognized), FDISK doesn't find any > > partition and the space is shown as free, unpartitioned. > > > > I tried to set the partition type for FreeBSD to FAT16, FAT32, FreeBSD > > and I also reformatted the partition many times, but with no success. > > > > have you any idea??? > > Are you kidding? > If no, just read the handbook. And check the partition type for > FreeBSD. FAT[13][26] is for MustDie. > > -- > Dennis Melentyev
I'm not kidding. I read the handbook before installing, before writing this emai and now and, correct me if I'm wrong, FDISK should recognize existent primary partitions; then, *inside* FDISK, I can format the primary partiton (for me #3) for FreeBSD. from section 2.6.2 of the Hankbook "The second section [of FDISK] shows the slices that are currently on the disk, where they start and end, how large they are, the name FreeBSD gives them, and their description and sub-type." Then I repeat my question: why FDISK shows my disk (with 3 primary partitions and an extended partition) as a single block of unused space ??? If you have some useful ideas (and not, RTFManual/MailingList is not an useful idea) please reply me. thanks --- Stefano Spinucci _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"