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From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: Installing (/stand/newfs failed)
To: jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:26:40 +0059 (MET)
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> * 2Gb (HP harddisk), SCSI
> 
> When installing I have created the FreeBSD Slices (one on both drives). And 
> have made the partitions:
> 2Gb disk (disk 0):
> a -  42Mb - /
> e - 990Mb - /usr
> f - 700Mb - /usr/home/ftp
> g - 300Mb - /usr/home/webmaster
> 
> But when the instalation continues and tries to make the new file systems I 
> get: "Exec(/stand/newfs) failed, code=7936."
> 
> When switching screen, I see:
> Debug <10>
> Debug <10>
> Progress <newfs /dev/rsd0a>
> Warning: 384 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
> /dev/rsd0a:     86016 sectors in 96 cylinders of 15 tracks, 60 sectors
>         42.0MB in 6 cyl groups (16 c/g, 7.03MB/g, 1728 i/g)
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>  32, 14496, 28960, 43424, 57888, 72352,
> cg 0: bad magic number

I suspect you are using FreeBSD 2.0 ? This has some slight problems with disks
larger than 1Gb. Try to get the bootfloppies from the 950210-SNAP and use
them for the installation. They should work.


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