From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 19:10:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF0737B400 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 19:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from attbi.com ([12.252.56.4]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020623021033.OIWL20219.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@attbi.com> for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:10:33 +0000 Message-ID: <3D152E24.4090107@attbi.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:10:44 -0600 From: Aaron J Siegel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020513 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Questions Subject: Re: Problem on installing FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE References: <000001c2198f$200f3340$050710ac@heos.com> <7818893717.20020622141343@dds.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Your root is very large. Could you try making it so that: >/ = 128M >swap >/var = 256M >/tmp = 256M >/usr every thing else >and see what happens. > >Pressing the a(uto) key during the label process will do this for you. > > > > I do not believe yyzox problem is not from the size of his/her root partion, you can have it take up the enitire hard drive if you would like. Have seprate partion for each filesystem (/, /usr, /home, /var and ,/tmp) is not necessary, it just protection mechinism to portect so if a heavly partition goes down everything it doesn't kill the system. yyzox I do not know what the problem is nor how to fix it. Sorry I couldn't help. Can you boot into single user mode and run, fsck on the disk? Good luck > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message