On Sunday 14 July 2002 00:07, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Steve Mazerski wrote: > > However any attempt was answered with the the message > > "Unable to create the partition. Too big?" even using the > > "Auto defaults" option. > > > > After trying various things (random panic option tweaking, > > expletive cursing etc.) I booted into Linux and used > > the Linux fdisk to set the partition / slice type to FreeBSD. > > (I left the filesystem as it was). > > > > On restarting the FreeBSD installation process, I was able > > to create partitions as expected and the slice was > > formatted correctly. > > > > Is this a bug or have I missed something? > > That looks like a known bug -- bin/24435 -- originally posted in > January 2001 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin%2F24435) > A patch was posted, but the bug is still open and not assigned to > anyone in particular, so chances are it's got forgotten. If you > submit a follow-up someone may be inspired to commit a fix...
Aha, that looks like it. Very annoying bug, because I spent half the evening trying to correct what I thought was my own mistake... Follow-up submitted. Many thanks, S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
