From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 18:26:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B3210656C3 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:26:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca) Received: from mail.vex.net (smaug.vex.net [208.76.104.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58758FC21 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:26:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca) Received: from [192.168.110.8] (unknown [207.35.13.152]) by mail.vex.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B00A217094; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:26:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4973745C.3000002@utoronto.ca> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:26:36 -0500 From: William Gordon Rutherdale User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14ubu (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <4968EDAF.40108@utoronto.ca> <3a142e750901101153x66d0099dxa871dce07df32175@mail.gmail.com> <49694724.6090705@utoronto.ca> <20090111165235.GA62524@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <496A7E0F.4060301@utoronto.ca> <20090111234532.GA86733@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <496A9800.40205@utoronto.ca> <20090112170739.GA14646@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090112170739.GA14646@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:26:39 -0000 Okay, I had a busy week but finally got back to this machine and made a fresh attempt at installing FreeBSD on it. I followed your advice and made the whole hard drive into a gigantic partition mounted on /, except that I also created a 20GB swap partition. Everything installed fine, including configuration of the ethernet adapter. So now I'm in on the FreeBSD world. Thanks for the help. -Will Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:16PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > >> I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. >> >> The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed >> to fail writing to the hard drive. >> >> I got this during installation: >> >> Progress >> Extracting GENERIC into /boot directory... >> >> Message >> Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) >> >> /mtrt: write failed, filesystem is full. >> >> ------------- >> >> I think I allocated decent size partitions for /, /var, swap, /tmp, >> /usr. I made multiple attempts. Kept getting errors. >> > > The 'filesystem is full' message might imply that the partition for root > is too small. What were the filesystem sizes you chose? There should be > an item in the main install menu to start a shell. If you take that > option and use the 'df -h' command, you should see the sizes of the > mounted partitions. > > What happens if you just make one giant partition? > > Roland >