From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Apr 8 04:53:18 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA13302 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 04:53:18 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA13295 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 04:53:08 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA10105; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:51:46 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id NAA28800; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:51:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA02952; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:45:05 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504081145.NAA02952@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: install problem To: urban@snickers.mhpcc.edu (scott urban) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 13:45:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504071852.IAA01201@snickers.mhpcc.edu.mhpcc.edu> from "scott urban" at Apr 7, 95 08:52:46 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 718 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As scott urban wrote: > > > I am having trouble installing my recently acquired freeBSD OS on my > 486dx PC. I go through the install procedures according to instructions. > I also change the disk geometry to 16 heads, 32 sectors as you > recommended. However, when I select (P)roceed, the install process > halts saying /stand/newfs failed with an error code of 8192? Please, give us more input. What exactly did you do? (``according to the instructions'' is way too few). What showed the debug screen? (Alt-F2) What's your drive geometry, partitioning data etc.? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)