From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 15:15:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C4637B401 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.codefusionis.com (ns.codefusionis.com [208.33.29.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBDE943FBD for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:15:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedu@zeitbombe.org) Received: (qmail 24103 invoked by uid 1049); 21 Jul 2003 22:16:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Jul 2003 22:16:15 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:16:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Ted Unangst X-X-Sender: tedu@ns.codefusionis.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: trouble installing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:15:52 -0000 I tried to install FreeBSD 5.1 today, and ran into several issues. Machine in question is a generic AMD 1500 with 1GB RAM and 80GB IDE disk running OpenBSD. I'm attempting to install a small setup, just for quick testing. prep: Downloaded floppy images and base sets to a FAT32 partition, /mnt/freebsd in openbsd. made floppies, rebooted. installation: boots fine, comes up into sysintall. i choose normal installation. fdisk goes fine. i created a 1GB partition. it's ad0s2 i have enough RAM, i'd rather not use swap. disklabel defaulted to 120MB /, 512MB swap, 100MB var and tmp, and 80MB /usr i think. Now I know FreeBSD isn't going to fit in 80MB /usr. So delete it all, and just create 1GB /. Next it asks me where to install from. I want to install from local disk, a FAT32 partition. I choose localdisk from the menu, and it asks me, where is this mounted? umm, it's not mounted yet. i just enter /mnt/freebsd Go on, pick basic sets, and say yes, ready to install. Then a box pops up, telling me i can't install without swap. i go back, create 200MB swap, 800MB /, and try again. this time the error message is can't find device node /dev/ad0s2b to create swap. escape to emergency shell. this is pretty rough, there's no ls. but using echo *, i can tell that yes, the only /dev entries for ad0s2 are ad0s2a and ad0s2c. there's also no mount or mount_msdos command. at this point i'm stuck. i went back through, and tried a few more times using custom install. every time its the same. if i don't create swap, it refuses to go forward. if i do create swap, it complains about missing /dev/ad0s2b. even if i tricked it into letting me past, how do i specify that base sets are on the localdisk, in a DOS partition? 1. why do i need to create a swap partition? (i can deal with it, just a little extra aggravation.) 2. why does sysinstall pick disklabel values that clearly can't work? 3. why is there no /dev/ad0s2b node? how do i create it, since i need a swap partition? 4. what do i enter into the file system box? the DOS partition isn't mounted, and i have no idea how to mount it. Thanks for help, and I hope I've given enough information. -- so what do you want you want to be famous and rich and happy but you're terrified you have nothing to offer this world