From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 16:37:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8E016A4E5 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:37:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from cerebus.elitists.org (gb.elitists.org [64.40.72.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 184C643F75 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsdlists@elitists.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (h202.elitists.org [64.40.88.202]) by cerebus.elitists.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A7025D for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:37:01 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:37:22 -0600 From: "F. Even" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20031124200234.C78D416A4D7@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: fbsd 5.1 setup problem, "too many active children of 'whole' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:37:56 -0000 Hello all, I have recently completely cleared all the cruft off of this P3-700 with 2 9GB Seagate SCSI drives, and 1 Maxtor 40GB drive. I ran this on it apparently successfully (after booting from the 5.1 live filesystem cd): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 I am now trying to install 5.1 on this machine, using Express install, and I get this error after telling the machine to use the whole slice on da0: "Too many active children of 'whole'" What does this mean? I have not done anything since. What does this mean, and what should I be doing now that I have seen this error. Thanks for any help any of you may provide. Frank