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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:45:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        urban@snickers.mhpcc.edu (scott urban)
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: install problem
Message-ID:  <199504081145.NAA02952@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504071852.IAA01201@snickers.mhpcc.edu.mhpcc.edu> from "scott urban" at Apr 7, 95 08:52:46 am

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As scott urban wrote:
> 
> 
> I am having trouble installing my recently acquired freeBSD OS on my
> 486dx PC.  I go through the install procedures according to instructions.
> I also change the disk geometry to 16 heads, 32 sectors as you
> recommended.  However, when I select (P)roceed, the install process
> halts saying /stand/newfs failed with an error code of 8192?

Please, give us more input.  What exactly did you do?  (``according
to the instructions'' is way too few).  What showed the debug
screen? (Alt-F2)  What's your drive geometry, partitioning data etc.?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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