From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 14: 7:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CDA37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:07:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swilson258@home.com) Received: from cx185347a ([65.11.71.84]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010516210755.IOIK20888.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cx185347a> for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:07:55 -0700 From: "Scott Wilson" To: Subject: cant Swap to /dev/adOs1b Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:14:00 -0700 Message-ID: <000801c0de4d$20c1e540$0201a8c0@phnx3.az.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok I have a PB 486 Intel with an overdrive to 80mhz and 64m of ram. I have an old 2gig drive samsung set to master, and a IDE cdrom set as the slave. I got the boot floppies made. i the set the partions to defualt settings and standard MBR. After i pick the dist (usr with X) I get the message Cant swap to /dev/adOs1b invailded argument. after i hit ok, I then get: Unable to get new root file systemon /dev/ad0s1a command return status then can not make file system properly aborting..then it goes back to the menu screen. I know it canwork I had red hat linux on this machine. Help?! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message