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To: steve hoyle <hoylesd@crosslink.net>
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Subject: Re: unable to swap during installation
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, steve hoyle wrote:

> I'm installing FreeBSD 4.0 on my PC.  I go through the standard
> installation, and set up a 100Mb root directory, a 260Mb swap directory, and

Did you just make a directory named swap? The swap is supposed to be a
partition of type 'swap'...

HTH,
  RSN


> a 9.5Gb /usr directory.  When it gets where it's going to start installing
> the OS, it gives me this error:
> 
> 
> 
> "Warning!  Unable to swap /dev/ab0s2b:  Device not configured.  This may
> cause the installation to fail at some point if you don't have alot of
> memory."
> 
> When continue i get this:
> 
> "Unable to make root file system on /dev/ad0s1a!  Command returned status
> 1."
> 
> When I hit enter:
> 
> "Couldn't make filesystems properly.  Aborting"
> 
> It then goes back to the /stand/sysinstall Main Menu.
> 
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
> Steve Hoyle
> hoylesd@crosslink.net
> 
> 
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