From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 10:06:29 2004 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 7C21F16A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:06:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (jgabel.net1.nerim.net [80.65.226.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD7B43D39 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:06:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886BA241F7 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:06:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 94507-03 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:06:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 51948241EA for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:06:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from 192.168.0.97 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:06:26 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <52523.192.168.0.97.1077645986.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <20040224163023.T797@localhost.localdomain> References: <1F3434EA.41BAA0C3.53D8FFDE@netscape.net> <20040224163023.T797@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:06:26 +0100 (CET) From: "Julien Gabel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thilelli.net Subject: Re: Not able install FreeBSD 5.1 properly. 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, 24 Feb 2004 18:06:29 -0000 >> I am facing problem in installation of FreeBSD 5.1. The system >> configuration is – P IV 2.4 GHz with two hard drives & 1 CDROM >> & 1 CDRW. I am trying to install FreeBSD in primary slave, in a >> primary partition of size 4GB. I have given 200MB as swap, 1500MB >> as /usr and rest to / . When it asks for installation source, I >> selected CDRW. But during the installation process, it never asked >> for Disk 2. So, it said that it could not find some packages. > I don't recall using disk 2 during installation; I think it's just > a rescue disk. The 'disc2' is a livefs which can be used for emergency purpose, not for installation. > I'm wondering if you have simply run out of space on /usr, 1.5GB is > quite small. A default FreeBSD installation will allocate only a few > hundred MB for /, and give almost all the space to /usr (/home is > then linked to /usr/home). Maybe you can learn more on the real problem by watching the messages on the second "virtual" console by pressing 'Alt+F2' during the installation process. > However, if I were you, I wouldn't install 5.1 at all, now that 5.2 > is available. Completely, but the installation should function for the old version too. -- -jg.