From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 21:12:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA03695 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 21:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA03634 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 21:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA10067; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 21:52:10 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 21:52:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Shan Schaefer cc: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install Errors - help In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960408165956.002c9b80@mail.eisyscorp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Shan Schaefer wrote: > I amgetting the following error during install, if anyone could help I would > be most appreciative. : > > Unable to make root filesystem on /dev/rsd0a! > Command returned status 1 My guess is that you had a previous failed install, and the info is messing up disklabel. Try using FDISK to dump that partition and recreate it completely. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major