Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:51:09 -0800 From: Noah Miller <nimiller@students.wisc.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange errors in Installation Message-ID: <30F450ED.62D@students.wisc.edu>
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Hi -
I'm having some problems with the v2.1.0 installation. Here's my
situation:
I have:
a Packard Bell 90mhz Pentium w/
PCI buses
a 528M IDE hard drive
a Matsushita Double Speed Drive
a Cirrus Logic SVGA card w 1mb vram
8Mb ram
a 14.4kbps Zoom Fax/modem
and a bunch of other stuff that is probably not important
I'm trying to do an Internet installation, but there are problems with
the hard drive.
I initially tried to install with a 170 mb partition divided up
as follows:
80mb for /usr
16mb for swap
74mb for /
and this configuration worked, but I discovered that I was just a few
Meg short for the installation that I wanted. So, I went back to dos
and stole a little space and repartitioned the hard drive again with a
freeware partition program ("Partition Resizer" by John Lagonikas).
Then, when I tried to install again, this time with 174Mb, I divided up
the file systems as follows:
106Mb for /
60Mb for /usr
8Mb for swap
However, when I try to write this partition configuration to disk, I get
the following messages:
*WARNING! Unable to swap to /dev/wd0s2b: Device not configured.
*This may cause the installation to fail atsome point if you
*don't have a lot of memory.
Then, it tries to make a root file system in /dev/rwd0a, with this error
message:
*Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0a!
*Command returned status 1
I tried to reboot with the "-c" option, and remove all unnecessary
drivers, but I still got those error messages. Of course, I may have
screwed that up, too.
I would really appreciate any help.
Thanks Much,
Noah Miller
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