From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 19: 6:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel1.hp.com (atlrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA9837B56B for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gene_dinkey@hp.com) Received: from amrelay1.boi.hp.com (amrelay1.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.24]) by atlrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF17BA0; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from xboibrg1.boi.hp.com (xboibrg1.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.167]) by amrelay1.boi.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with SMTP id UAA18516; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:06:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 15.56.8.167 by xboibrg1.boi.hp.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:06:01 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) Received: by xboibrg1.boi.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <3V5DX5PM>; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:06:00 -0600 Message-ID: From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" To: "'Greg Lehey'" , "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Slice size larger than disk size during install? Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:12:15 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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