From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 09:56:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29760 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 09:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (pop01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29739 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 09:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA53546; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 16:55:59 GMT Message-Id: <199606011655.QAA53546@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Sat, 01 Jun 96 12:54:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Unable to swap to /dev/wd01b. Device not configured Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to install FreeBSD at work. After I select the automatic to decide the sizes for the partitions I select "Write" and it goes through. After I quit and the install program tries to prepare the partitions I get: Unable to swap to /dev/wd01b. Device not configured. and Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0a. Command returned status 1. I took the boot floppy and rebooted. The computer booted Freebsd, but it was asking for a kernel. The drive is a 200MB (don't know the model) on a compaq computer. Moreover what is better to select the "whole drive" or the "compatible with other OS" modes in the first installation part? I am only going to have FreeBsd in this computer so I selected "whole drive" for FreeBSD and it gave a warning that I didn't understand.