From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 21 15:18:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F119D37B401 for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:18:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8722343EDA for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:18:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkohn01@comcast.net) Received: from icomcast.net (lb-ldap-155.icomcast.net [172.20.3.155]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.07 (built Nov 25 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H7H00GFCSMOSX@mtaout04.icomcast.net> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:16:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from [172.20.3.76] by msgstore07.icomcast.net (mshttpd); Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:16:00 -0600 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:16:00 -0600 From: daniel kohn <dkohn01@comcast.net> Subject: Error To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <61e84e61ad6d.61ad6d61e84e@icomcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.07 (built Nov 25 2002) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to set up FreeBSD 4.7 on a very old COMPAQ 486 machine with a 120MB harddrive via an FTP install. Each time I get through the setup and it tries to creat the root filesystem I get the following message: Unable to make new root filesystem on dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36 Can you give me any ideas what I can do to fix this, or is it just my harddrive is too small? Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message