From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 11 18:15:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.vagner.com (NS1.VAGNER.COM [204.120.36.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B2C37B405 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:15:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by ns1.vagner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1C2Ffx56211; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:15:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: from bedroom1.vagner.com (vsat-148-63-135-179.c2.sb4.mrt.starband.net [148.63.135.179]) by ns1.vagner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with ESMTP id g1C2FVk56203; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:15:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: from thunderbird (thunderbird.vagner.com [192.168.0.4]) by bedroom1.vagner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g1C2GDi24155; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:16:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Message-ID: <003c01c1b36b$17177390$0400a8c0@thunderbird> From: "freebsd" To: "brent" , "Freebsd-Questions" References: Subject: Re: help (system detail) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:15:02 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG what kind of cd-rom drivee are you using scsi or ide and brand name? just asking cause I have been seeing some problems with plextor ts40x ? drives ----- Original Message ----- From: "brent" To: "Freebsd-Questions" Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: help (system detail) > maxtor 60 gig ultra ata 30 90 M Ram > > i partitioned it as follows > 30 gig FreeBSD partition 30 gig DOS (windows is NOT installed or ever has > been) > 500M / > 500M swap > 1 G / > 1 G /var > 250M /tmp > 1 G /usr > 1 G /home > > I am installing from a cd, (i bought it so i know it is not a screwed up > image) the cd boots up fine and begins the install. > I check my irq settings and hardware, they are all detected correctly. When > i install i select the ALL option to install > everything, including the ports. The process will begin to run and then will > crash due to kernal panic and different times > of the install. i suspected at first that it was because my swap partition > was not large enough, so i increased the size. this did not work when i > tried to install again. i wiped the drive and attempted to install again > with the ALL option, and it worked. (i got to the menu that says congrats). > i did not choose to configure any options past this point partly because i > wanted to make sure it worked and partly because i wanted to learn how to do > it all manually. i rebooted the machine, and signed in as root. i then went > to sysinstall and tried to add Gnome with Sawfish. The package began the > install and copying files, then suddenly crashed due to a kernel panic. i > should say that i tried to run startx and i got several errors ("execve > failed for /usr/X1186/bin X (errno 2) "followed by a several lines of > "_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =2) thats all i can really > think to tell you all. thanks for looking this over! > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message