From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 1:23:36 2002 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 B318A37B401 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 01:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from vsmi.ru (ns.vsmi.ru [217.23.84.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 262CE43EB2 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 01:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from info@volginfo.ru) Received: (qmail 31561 invoked by uid 85); 25 Dec 2002 12:28:59 -0000 Received: from info@volginfo.ru by mail.vsmi.ru by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.12 (. Clear:. Processed in 0.079577 secs); 25 Dec 2002 12:28:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO img.local) (192.168.0.1) by 192.168.0.50 with SMTP; 25 Dec 2002 12:28:58 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Denis N. Peplin" To: daniel kohn Subject: Re: Error: Command returned status 36 Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:30:26 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <621137623373.623373621137@icomcast.net> In-Reply-To: <621137623373.623373621137@icomcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200212251230.26746.info@volginfo.ru> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 22 December 2002 02:35, daniel kohn wrote: > I am trying to set up FreeBSD 4.7 on a very old COMPAQ 486 machine > with a 120MB harddrive via an FTP install. > > Each time I get through the setup and it tries to creat the root > filesystem I get the following message: > > Unable to make new root filesystem on dev/ad0s1a! > Command returned status 36 > > Can you give me any ideas what I can do to fix this, or is it just > my harddrive is too small? Read FAQ, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html You can choose only bin distribution. Maby, good solution is to not divide disk to root, /usr, etc. Try to use only root. I'm never tried to install 4.x FreeBSD to such small disk, but you can try :) Another way is to use old FreeBSD versions or PicoBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message