From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 18 14:19:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA28464 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA28438; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609182119.OAA28438@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Peter Carter cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot install from snapshot CD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:13:32 EDT." <324049DC.48BF@besecure.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:19:44 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My first guess would be a geometry problem. Your geometry should follow the standard Adaptec translation: 64/32/#MB on drive or 255/63/#MB/7.???. The second geometry is for extended translation. >I have the wallnut-creek snapshot CD (January 1996 2.1). My machine is >a DX4-100 with 48mb ram, Adaptec 2842VL, Seagate 9gig hd (SCSI-2 FAST), >Fujisu 512mg hd (SCSI-1), Creative 6x IDE CDROM.... > >The system boots fine off the cd. It recognises all of my hardware and >drives. It allows me to create partition entries HOWEVER it keeps >returning an error when I try to create a FS. Thus I cannot get the >system up and running. >-- > >==================================================== >Peter Carter Systems Analist >613-751-4660 voice >mail/pager >Security/CGI/JAVA/PERL peterc@besecure.com > > http://www.besecure.com/~peterc > > Just how many times will "42" work? >==================================================== -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================