From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 20:01:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C280916A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:01:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from usw2.natel.net (2b.bz [209.152.117.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D666E43D48 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:01:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from WD@US-Webmasters.com) Received: (qmail 26462 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2005 20:01:06 -0000 Received: from batv-01-059.dialup.netins.net (HELO Htebazile.US-Webmasters.com) (216.248.109.60) by us-webmasters.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2005 20:01:06 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20050202135818.24d41a10@209.152.117.178> X-Sender: wd@209.152.117.178 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:59:52 -0600 To: "Fredrik Petersson" From: "W. D." In-Reply-To: <20050202194127.ED36037E44@smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net> References: <1107372084.12736.3.camel@p4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:01:13 -0000 At 13:42 2/2/2005, Fredrik Petersson wrote: >Hi all! >I have a old computer, I thought it was perfect for testings some FreeBSD >on. (Im a linux user, noramly). > >It is a old dell 500MHz with a 40GB disk, the "disk-part" of the >installation program told me something about the bios and that y disk size >wasn=B4t correct, I continued and I created /var / /dev /usr partitions in= the >installing program, but later the installation program tells me something >like could not mount /usr (and all the other mounting points).=20 > >Are ideas about where to start the troubleshooting?? FreeBSD can be tricky to install for first time users. You may want to just accept the defaults for the disk partioning. More info here: http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/