Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:16:53 -0400 From: "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com> To: "adrian esquivel" <adrianesquisi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <f2c91f770607252316q66909e64nb70006590525bdf1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ca15ad370607252257v7bdf95fdu25508880385702c@mail.gmail.com> References: <ca15ad370607252257v7bdf95fdu25508880385702c@mail.gmail.com>
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> > I've got a Maxtor of 60GB as primary master. My geometry is wrongly > reported > by the installation program, it reports a geometry of 119108/16/63 while > the > BIOS reports one of > 1024/240/63. If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem. However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your disk in the fdisk utility during install. I think this has nothing to do since I'm planning to have > FreeBSD as the only OS of the machine, but you never know... > These errors are shown just after I leave the partition editor, when they > give the warning of making Back ups. Then the 'Writing partitions; message > is shown and then the last one that says: "Unable to make new root > filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36" I'm confused. At what point are you pressing Alt-F2? There isn't any point during the installation, that I can think of, that requires you hitting Alt-F2. Though, in reference the short error message above, I would first recommend verifying the checksum of your ISO and then reburning it - start with the simple things :). -David -- [root@fbsd ~]# fortune Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.
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