Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:57:27 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Waddell <waddell@POSC.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: David Waddell <waddell@POSC.org> Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 2.0 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950124093306.2922c-100000@sys14.posc.org> In-Reply-To: <199501240525.VAA23771@violet.berkeley.edu>
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To add some more info, the DEC drive partition was /dev/sdb2 and it has
the following geometry:
disk_type = "DEC DSP5400S" \
: ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 9 \
: rpm = 5400 : bpt = 40000 \
: nsect = 96 : ncyl = 3128 : pcyl = 3055 : nhead = 26 \
: acyl = 2 : atrks = 0 : trks_zone = 26 : asect = 26
from my Sun's format.dat.
The drive has two partitions /dev/sdb1 (DOS) and /dev/sdb2 (FreeBSD). The
second partition was disklabeled as below and the label and fdisk both
written. Having said that, when I rebooted the disk the original Linux
partitions were still there. I also tried with a clean IBM 0665 (1GB)
disk with the same results. Finally, I ftp'ed the latest snapshot from
freebsd.org:
/.11/FreeBSD/2.0-950112-SNAP
Also with the same results. Any help is appreciated.
On Mon, 23 Jan 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 1. How many cylinders is your disk? I also assume that you fdisk/disklabeled
> the disk and assigned the root, swap and user partitions properly?
>
> 2. The boot code is actually not from Linux at all - it's from one of our
> Russian members..
>
> 3. Further questions, or a follow-up to this one, should really be directed
> to questions@freebsd.org.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jordan
> ---
>
> I picked up FreeBSD 2.0 and a couple of Linux discs from Usenix '95. I
> had a few problems installing Yggdrasil Plug 'n Play and Slackware but
> generally it went OK. However, when I tried to install FreeBSD I get a
> pop up box with:
>
> Exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code = 5888.
> < OK >
>
> I have a '486/33 with 16MB memory, Adaptec 1542C(F?) with a Maxtor 213SY
- > DEC 5400S - Teac CDROM (CD50) - and Archive QIC150 tape. I partitioned
> the DEC 5400S with ~900MB partition into which I put a 50MB root, 100MB
> swap and the rest /usr. I understand that the boot/install code is
> modified Linux code which works fine. Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>
>
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