Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 20:09:17 +0100 (BST) From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> To: David Hobley <davidh@progmatics.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 3.1-RELEASE Crash/FS Corruption on my Libretto Message-ID: <XFMail.990409200917.jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <370D4475.3D1CE7E0@progmatics.com.au>
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On 09-Apr-99 David Hobley wrote: > Hello, > > I installed FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE (the one that comes with the 3.1 > Walnut Creek CDROM) onto my Libretto this week. I had just got > everything installed over a serial line (slow slow slow - but I > can't use my ethernet card as the machine has only one slot and the > floppy used that on boot). I took out the hard drive and plugged it into one of my other machines with an adaptor. Once the basic install worked, I could use my ethernet connection for the upgrading. > I was logged in to the console as root and executed zzz. This > successfully suspended my machine. > I then resumed my machine which appeared to work well. I logged out > and when I entered my username to log in the machine crashed and > completely trashed my /usr partition. To the extent I will have to > reinstall from scratch. You mentioned that you suspended....you did leave space at the end of your hard disk for the suspend operation to dump on, didn't you? C-YA Jon <http://www.dookie.demon.co.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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