Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 05:12:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Eleonora Marchioretti <eleonora.marchioretti@yahoo.com> To: "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@FreeBSD.org>, "questions@FreeBSD.org" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Install Unix on a laptop with Windows OS Message-ID: <33018666.1010913.1452316374119.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <33018666.1010913.1452316374119.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi I would like to know if it is possible to install UNIX (not Linux) on a laptop that has already a Windows OS and if you have instructions to do it.Thank you in advance. Best regardsEleonora From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jan 9 07:51:06 2016 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274BEA68C6A for <freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 07:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markhamb@corp.ssimicro.com) Received: from mail.ssimicro.com (mail.ssimicro.com [64.247.129.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.ssimicro.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6DAE1381 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 07:51:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markhamb@corp.ssimicro.com) Received: from Markhams-MacBook-Pro.local (64-247-136-115.ssimicro.com [64.247.136.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ssimicro.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id u097T60g031179 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 9 Jan 2016 00:29:07 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: "fsck -y /" keeps saying "Disk is still dirty" no matter how many times I run it To: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <569017FF.9060509@rawbw.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1601081810070.15411@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> <569057F6.6060903@gmail.com> From: markham breitbach <markhamb@corp.ssimicro.com> Message-ID: <5690B7BF.1040505@corp.ssimicro.com> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 00:33:19 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <569057F6.6060903@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 07:51:06 -0000 On 2016-01-08 5:44 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 01/08/2016 05:15 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: >> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Yuri wrote: >> >>> As a result of the power outage I needed to run fsck on UFS disk >>> with soft-updates. >>> >>> But every time the command 'fsck -y /' says that it corrected a lot >>> of problems, but it still leaves the disk dirty. I ran it at least >>> 15 times - same result. >> >> Most likely you have a bad sector on your disk. fsck cannot fix this. >> When you write to the disk, hopefully the disk will mark the sector >> bad, and basically hide it. Unfortunately, you cannot mount it to >> write if it is dirty. You can only newfs it, which means goodbye to >> everything since your last backup. After you newfs, you can restore >> from your backup. >> >> >>> >>> What would be the way to proceed from here? >>> >>> (I ran fsck before, but it never happened that fsck keeps finding >>> problems) >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Yuri > Can you boot from a live fbsd cdrom and run fsck > on the boot drive? > Add the option -f -v > Assuming your boot partition and slice is |ada0s1a > |fsck -v -f -y /dev/|ada0s1a 2>&1 | tee /tmp/fsck.out| > > Please provide the file /tmp/fsck.out by uploading it to some sharing > website, and provide the url to it. > > Be sure the drive in question is not mounted. > > It is possible that there are problems with the controller. Can you take the drive and put it into a completely different host? (Ideally as a secondary drive so you can boot without having to mount the drive) -M
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