Date: Fri, 29 Dec 95 11:48:08 From: Yankura David <DGY@hillae.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: More info on install problem Message-ID: <E23FE3300130B7D1@hillae.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I've been making some more attempts to install FreeBSD v2.1 on my AMD 486/DX4 100MHz system and have come across something which might be part or all of the problem. I tried a <<custom>> installation instead of the <<novice>> one and followed this path: boot from floppy select custom installation select allocate disk space from menu select sd1(no existing partitions) for use by FreeBSD(Seagate st3283N 237MB drive w/1691 cyl, 5 hds, and 57 sectors/track avg). select option "A" - use entire disk for FreeBSD(leaving a true partition) This process creates a freebsd partition @ offset 57, size 485298, named sd1s1 w/flag "C" I then execute option "W" to save these changes. I select installation of the booteasy boot mgr. get msg that fdisk partition info written successfully. select label allocated disk partitions from menu select option "A" - Auto defaults for all: this creates partitions: sd1s1a / 32MB UFS Y sd1s1b <none> 27MB SWAP sd1s1e /var 30MB UFS Y sd1s1f /usr 147MB UFS Y select option "W" to save these changes - are you sure - YES get the following msg: "WARNING! unable to swap to /dev/sd1s1b: device not configured" "this may cause the installation to fail at some point" "if you don't have a lot of memory." I then get another msg: "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rsd1a!" "command returned status 1." Since my machine only has 8MB ram I wonder if this might be the cause of my installation problems. If I continue on with the installation I get the error that I have reported before during the creation of /bin: on the console session: "panic: bad dir" and on the 2nd screen: "/mnt: bad dir ino 157 at offset 677: mangled entry" As I mentioned before the ino# and offset# are different every time I try an installation. I have never seen any msgs like these when I use the <<novice>> installation. Any help or just insight as to what might be going on would be greatly appreciated. David Yankura dgy@hillae.com
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?E23FE3300130B7D1>