From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 3 17:50:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA04886 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:50:36 -0800 Received: from cais.cais.com (cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA04690 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:50:26 -0800 Received: from cais2.cais.com (cais2.cais.com [199.0.216.200]) by cais.cais.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA29485 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 20:49:21 -0500 Received: from localhost (cmcgee@localhost) by cais2.cais.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) id UAA14303; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 20:49:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 20:49:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Charles J. McGee" Subject: Installation of FreeBSD 2.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I downloaded the install document from your most recent SNAP update and that got me through the disk space allocation and assign portion of the installation process. When I try to (P)roceed past that point, the install bombs and then reboots. When I (P)roceed and type [Y]es ("go ahead and take my last chance") two screens/boxes flash up. I can't read the first one even though I have done this a number of times. (Hey! Those Pentiums may not be able to add, but they sure are fast at it!) The second box comes up with a title of FATAL and the message in the box is "Exec(/stand/newfs) failed, code=5888". Anyone know what a 5888 error is? For that matter, is there anywhere that all error codes are listed? I've tried multiple times, changing allocation sizes and assigning only '/' and 'swap', '/', 'swap' and 'usr', etc. The only difference, except for sizes, that I can see from the examples in the install document is that my DOS partition(s) always show up after the 'c' and 'd' slices (i.e. either 'e' {primary DOS} or 'e' and 'f' for {primary and secondary DOS partitions}). In the install document, the DOS partition is always at the end of the list in slice 'h'. Is that significant? What should I try next? As I said in my previous question, I am trying to install 2.0 on a Dell OmniPlex Pentium 90MHZ with 32MB RAM and one 2GB hard disk/ NEC 3X CRDROM drive on an Adaptec 1740 SCSI adapter.