From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 5:25:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picknowl.com.au (firewall.picknowl.com.au [203.24.77.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D734A37B400 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 05:25:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailserver1.picknowl.com.au (mailserver1.picknowl.com.au [10.1.1.4]) by mailserver2.picknowl.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA11341 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:55:40 +1030 Received: from [210.48.133.114] by mailserver1.picknowl.com.au (NTMail 5.03.0001/NU2410.00.c584a8e8) with ESMTP id wdjjycaa for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:55:39 +1030 From: "nik [tm]" To: Subject: 4.4 Install problem Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:56:47 +1030 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal 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 I have just tried installing version FreeBSD 4.4 on my system and i seem to have come across a problem just after partitioning and labelling the HDD.. i tried auto labelling as well as my own choice but they both gave the same error. 'Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a' next message was 'command returned status 1' then ' couldnt make filesystem, aborting' I checked the other tty (vty?) and it said 'newfs: /dev/ad0s1a: 'a' partition is unavailable' I read a bit on groups and suggestions people had didnt help; things like changing hdd to slave (put cd as master - hmm useful as I run a scsi cd!) I am installing to my IDE hdd (windows has the smaller SCSI as it will be purely for gaming once BSD is up and running!) Partitioning - I split the drive fair down the middle.. 2 x 9.5Gb with the labeling I tried a few options, initially as how I wanted it to be set out; swap 512Mb / had 1Gb /var had 500Mb /usr had 1Gb and the rest for /home I left the second partition for now, that will hold my music collection.. any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! TIA nik [tm] ·´¯`·.¸¸..><((((º>.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>`·.¸ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message