From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 11:24:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA29239 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.liunet.edu (falcon.liunet.edu [148.4.5.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29234 Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:24:03 -0800 (PST) From: lray@aurora.liunet.edu Received: from aurora.liunet.edu by falcon.liunet.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA19327; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:23:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:24:38 -0500 Message-Id: <95121914243820@aurora.liunet.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation trouble...Please help X-Vms-To: SMTP%"questions@freebsd.org" SMTP%"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have a 406 meg IDE hard drive and a 1 gig SCSI drive that I've been trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 on for a very long time. I picked the 406 meg drive specificly to hold the root file system... It has only 989 cylinders, and I'd had trouble installing it on the SCSI alone. (SCSI has 1931 cylinders) I installed a 20 meg DOS partition on the SCSI so FreeBSD can figure out the geometry of the disk (as I read in the FAQ). I then booted form the boot floppy, selected Novice Installation, and made the appropriate partitions and filesystems (/,/var,/usr,swap). When the installation starts, I get: "Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting." If I press control-f2 I see the message: DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk sd0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for swap filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk sd0 for swap filesystem pid 5: sh: uid 0: exited on signal 11 pid 0 on /: file system full DEBUG: Switching back to VTY1 Can anyone help me understand exactly what these messages mean and what I'm doing wrong? If so, please write. Thanks L.Ray