Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:57:30 +0100 From: "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install troubles right at the beginning Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010824215246.00a105f0@www.maiatech.com> In-Reply-To: <15238.45674.743783.199295@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010824170751.00a736f8@www.maiatech.com> <5.0.2.1.2.20010824170751.00a736f8@www.maiatech.com>
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At 04:00 PM 8/24/01 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: >I suspect there may be some problem with the disklabel on the drive >you're attempting to install onto. Hmm.. Are these disks with msdos >style fdisk partition tables? Did linux boot from arc(or milo) or the >SRM when it was booting from this disk? This is what we ended up thinking was going on, as well. After trying FreeBSD 4.2 a dozen times, I tried installing RedHat 7.1, just to see what would happen. Same basic problem -- gets through the setup stuff, when it starts writing to disk, it reports an error saying the disk might be full. This is after checking that there was a BSD disklabel (there was). So, I then tried to re-install SuSE 7.0 (which was running on it before). It installed perfectly. I *think* that SuSE 7.0 was the first OS ever installed on the drive. >Try blowing away the partition table on the disk you're going to >install FreeBSD on by dd'ing /dev/zero over the first meg or so of it >before you attempt to install. I'll give this a shot next week and tell you what happens! I would like to run FreeBSD on this baby. Thanks for the advice. -- "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." -- Samuel Johnson -- Michael A. Smith <msmith@code-fu.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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