From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 17 5:20: 7 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 33F8937B400 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 05:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerebellum.za.net (cerebellum.za.net [196.34.172.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F024843E4A for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 05:19:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@cerebellum.za.net) Received: from bert (vic-dial-196-31-177-164.mweb.co.za [196.31.177.164]) by cerebellum.za.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7HCMO3B074347 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:22:26 GMT (envelope-from ian@cerebellum.za.net) From: "Ian Barnes" To: Subject: Label Error Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:21:31 +0200 Message-ID: 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Hi, I am trying to install 4.5 on a 4gig hdd. I boot up using the CD, all goes well, i get to the sysinstall main menu, and i carry on, i create partitions, 4 of them, one for /, one for /var, one for /usr/home, and one for swap (in that order). I then write the information, which all goes well. The problem comes in when i try and write the label information. I set it up as above. The error i get is the one below: Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s4b: Device not configured I push enter, to get to the next error Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a Command returned status 1 In the debug screen, i get : DEBUG: Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card0 DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions newfs: /dev/ad0s1a: 'a' partition is unavailable The hdd is fine, because just before i was gonna change it to bsd, i was using it in doze ... Just to make sure it wasnt the harddrive or the computer, i tried the 4gig hdd on 2 other computers plus i tried a 10gig on all 3. I then tried to install FreeBSD 4.3, and 4.4, all with the same error. What is strange is that i used the 10gig hdd as my main BSD drive for years, on one of the machines i tried?? Any help would be great Thanks Ian ------------------------- BOFH - Mom's Pharmacies Email - ian@cerebellum.za.net ------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message