From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 28 13:34:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11588 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:34:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11565 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:34:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from travis@interlog.com) Received: from thescrewed (209-20-1-144.dialin.interlog.com [209.20.1.144]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA19245 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:34:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980328213251.0068adb0@mail.interlog.com> X-Sender: travis@mail.interlog.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:32:51 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: WOLF Subject: FreeBSD Installation problems Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi FreeBSD, I am extremely interessted in FreeBSD, and up to this point have been very impressed with the Installation and help from the Online Manuals I have read. I was wondering though if you could help me out with a problem I am having installing FreeBSD 2.2.5 on one of my machines. OK, the machine is a 386DX with 8Mb ram and a 41Mb hard drive. I have a boot floppy (which I downloaded) and I boot up with it. I configure my kernel appropriatly (no conflicts) and change necessary settings to support my network card. I then exit and it loads up the installation screen. I try novice and go through the steps. When making my first partion I use all of the 41Mb and make it a BSD partion. I then go to the next step and mounts. the "/" route mount i allocate 20Mb to it. For the swap I allocate about 10M. The rest of the space a use for the "/usr" mount (about 11Mb). I then select floppy for the type of media I wish to use. I get to the final step where I commit and I get these errors: when the tabs in the label editor is "Y" for the "/" and "/usr" i get the message: "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0a! Command returned status 36" when the tabs in the label editor is "Y" for the "/" and "/usr" i get the messages: "Warning: using existing root partion. It will be assumed that you have the appropriate device entries already in /dev" then I get: "Warning: FSCK returned status of 136 for /dev/rwd0a. This partion may be unsafe to use." In both of these situations the installation never completes. One thing I would like to mention is that before I tryed installing FreeBSD I was playing around in my CMOS and accidently replaced my configurations for my hard drive with the autodetect configurations (autodetect configuration was different than my originals). After that I tryed to reboot and the computer would boot up but it kept giving me hard drive errors and said "missing Operation System" and just sat there. SO I reconfigured the hard drive with my own configurations. I also did a format in CMOS. I then booted up and installed DOS 6.2 to assure that my new hard drive CMOS settings would work. DOS installed and everything worked once I rebooted. I hope you can help me in any way, I have been troubleshooting this problem for day and nights and I have still not figured out why I cant install FreeBSD. Any information at all would be extremely appreciated. Thank you Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message