Problem installing FreeBSD after Linux

Lee Hanxue lee139 at streamyx.com
Thu Feb 12 20:33:33 PST 2004



Hi, 


I have 1 primary partition, containing 4 extended partitions. Mandrake Linux 9.2 is installed over there. Using fdisk in FreeBSD installer, I created another primary partition and tried installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 there. 

Unfortunately, the installation process got hung while the installer was "Creating a root filesystem on ad10s3". I waited for more than 3 hours. I selected none when I was prompted to install a boot manager, since I wanted to boot using Grub which is already there when I install Linux.

This is the output from Linux's cfdisk:

Partition Table for /dev/hda

            First    Last
 # Type     Sector   Sector   Offset  Length   Filesystem Type (ID)   Flags
-- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- ---------
 1 Primary        0  4016249      63  4016250  Linux (83)             Boot (80)
 2 Primary  4016250 23760134       0 19743885  Extended (05)          None (00)
 5 Logical  4016250 20643524      63 16627275  Linux (83)             None (00)
 6 Logical 20643525 23085404      63  2441880  Linux (83)             None (00)
 7 Logical 23085405 23760134      63   674730  Linux swap (82)        None (00)
 3 Primary 23760135 28659959       0  4899825  FreeBSD (A5)           None (00)
   Primary 28659960 78156224       0 49496265  Free Space             None (00)

What did I do wrong?

Thank you in advance.



Yours truly,
Hanxue


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