From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 15:49:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19355 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:49:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.photronics.com (dragon.photronics.com [207.77.140.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19350 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:49:00 -0700 (PDT) From: APRIM@mv3900.svl.photronics.com Received: by dragon.photronics.com; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02601; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:55:59 -0700 Received: from hmm1.svl.photronics.com by m4300.photronics.com with SMTP; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MV3900.svl.photronics.com by hmm1.svl.photronics.com (4.1/3.1.090690-Photronics, Inc. - Sunnyvale) id AA19685; Tue, 17 Sep 96 15:42:43 PDT Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:46:36 -0700 (PDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <960917154636.208092dc@mv3900.svl.photronics.com> Subject: Installation Errors Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, My name is Aprim and recently started taking UNIX class. As my instuctor recommended I purchased FREEBSD CDs to have'm installed in my 486-33MHz computer. Today is the forth week that I have been trying. I also been calling Tech Support more than 15 times, asking them questions. Anyway, David from Tech Support gave me your E-mail address so I can briefly mail all the installation problems I have. Here they are: I went through changing my hardware so CDROM can be recognize by FreeBSD which couldn't at beginning. I had 1 DOS Partition (1.6 GB H.D) which had to delete it so I can make another Partition for FreeBSD (made 300MB). To make it short, for two weeks tried to use installation from CDROM using Tech Support help finally I quit on that and decided to do it Using DOS Partition. I made the directory FreeBSD under C: and copied /BIN files. I also later on copied /FLOPPIES files per Tech Support. Booted up to FreeBSD installation menu, in FDISK Partitioning deleted Extended Partition and created FreeBSD, used A (AUTO) in labeling, selected "Wd0s1" (DOS Partition) and proceeded by selecting install from DOS Partition. It began doing some stuff and than came up with following error messages: €1- Write failure on transfer /BIN distribution from Wd0s1 (wrote 1€ €Byte)€ €Following by ENTER key, rapidly displayed the below message.€ €2- /mnt: create/symlink failed, no inodes free€. Since I had enough capacity on my H.D, copied all the files from CDROM to FreeBSD directory to be safe if there is file missing, but still didn't work I had same error messages displayed. Please contact me today if you can at: (page me if am not on my desk) Tel: (408) 629-8900 Pager: (408) 233-1879 E_Mail: aprim@svl.photronics.com