Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:59:34 +0100 From: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl> To: daniel kohn <dkohn01@comcast.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error: Command returned status 36 Message-ID: <4237361122.20021223215934@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <621137623373.623373621137@icomcast.net> References: <621137623373.623373621137@icomcast.net>
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Dear/Beste daniel, Sunday, December 22, 2002, 12:35:59 AM, you wrote: > I am trying to set up FreeBSD 4.7 on a very old COMPAQ 486 machine > with a 120MB harddrive via an FTP install. > Each time I get through the setup and it tries to creat the root > filesystem I get the following message: > Unable to make new root filesystem on dev/ad0s1a! > Command returned status 36 > Can you give me any ideas what I can do to fix this, or is it just > my harddrive is too small? Your harddisk is very small. This could prove to fail the installation due to lack of space. It should however not make it impossible to make a new root system. (You did change the defaults did you?) You could try and find out what type of hardware you have (harddisk and what IO card) check those against the hardware notes. (can be found at www.freebsd.org) I consider the following to be the absolute lowest possible for FreeBSD 4.x: / 64M /usr 300M - 350M /var 24M My file system Unix1# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 128990 62206 56466 52% / /dev/ad0s1e 2299550 1207988 907598 57% /usr /dev/ad1s1e 257998 77178 160182 33% /var /dev/ad1s1f 257998 22694 214666 10% /tmp /dev/ad1s1g 3096462 1678610 1170136 59% /disk1 /dev/ad1s1h 25901740 21707792 2121810 91% /disk2 -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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