Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:32:51 -0500 From: WOLF <travis@interlog.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Installation problems Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19980328213251.0068adb0@mail.interlog.com>
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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
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