From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 22:35:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692FC37B491 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f196YPF91943; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 06:34:25 GMT (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: , Subject: RE: installation Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:35:25 -0800 Message-ID: <003801c09262$7c7a1600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.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 In-Reply-To: <311A5044.13496.12D100@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What kind of system is it, how big are the disks, etc. My new years resolution was to swear off making snap judgements based on error messages from systems that I have to guess at the hardware configuration. :-/ Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alex Medeiros > da Paz > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 1996 1:34 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: installation > > > Hi, Everyone! > > I tried to install FreeBSD on my computer but couldn't make it to > the end. I would appreciate very much any help any of you could > give me. > > I downloaded all the installation files needed for the X-User > distribution. After extracting all of the files from the folder > FREEBSD (which was inside a FAT-32 partition), I got the following > message between quotations: > > "panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted > syncing disks... 135 135 135 108 98 62 34 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 > giving up on 1 buffers > Uptime: 6m21s > Automatic Reboot in 15 sec (...)" > > After that I tried to install the system again, but this time using the > Debug option, so that I could switch to the console where the > debugging messages appear, and here's what I got (the 2 last > lines): > > "ports/chinese/mutt/README.html > start=0, len=2, fs=/mnt/usr" > > By the way, the first thing I tried to do, as suggested on the > handbook, was to check the boot floppies and write the images > again (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). No success. Any other ideas? > > Thank you all! > Alex > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message