Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:12:15 -0600 From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com> To: "'Greg Lehey'" <grog@lemis.com>, "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Slice size larger than disk size during install? Message-ID: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C5313ED@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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>On Sunday, 9 July 2000 at 7:40:32 -0700, GENE DINKEY wrote: >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a P90 w/ 24MB RAM. >I'm using the boot >> floppies, the first time I went through the installation the >only problem I >> had was a loose cable on the back of the cdrom (probably >happened while I >> was moving the system) that caused the package installation >to abort. I >> didn't have any problems slicing out the HDD or anything like that. >> >> After I rebooted I can boot off of the floppies but when I >try to load the >> install it tries to read the HDD then says "slice size >larger than disk >> size", gives a few numbers (slice Vs disk and such) > >We need to see them. Actually I got the problem taken care of. I went in with fdisk and deleted the non DOS partition and [roceded to install. I think the problem lies with my 4.0 Release CD, after it creates the file systems and starts to read the packages off the disk on the debug console I get a seriese of messages like this... TOC_READ failed: reseting device done (repeat 5 times) READ_BIG failed: reseting device done (again repeat 5 times or so) it goes like this for a while with different messages (I didn't write them down and I'm currently at work sorry) until it just comes to a dead hang. I decided to try my 3.5 disk to see how that worked and I didn't have a single problem with it. Installed, compiled a kernel, configured both nics...not a hicup. I think the problem may be with my 4.0 disk...oh well I suppose I can still cvsup to 4.0... Thank you for your help Gene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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