[1174] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Sep 12 11:59:20 1997
To: qzwang@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:49:37 EDT."
<199709112249.SAA17247@no-knife.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:58:21 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I'm trying to install NetBSD on my machine, but it's giving me an
> error message that says it couldn't find a netbsd partition or free
> sectors. I have 300 or so megs of empty disk space outside of my
> primary and secondary dos partitions.
Can you send us a description of your partition table, perhaps as
output by the pfdisk utility in /mit/netbsd/i386/utils?
One possibility is that you have some free space inside an extended
partition. NetBSD can't find space there.
