Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: John McClure <chromodromic@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hell of a time Message-ID: <20030331213002.16167.qmail@web41415.mail.yahoo.com>
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Somebody pleeeaaasse help. I've been trying to install 5.0-RELEASE on an old Dell 600MHz P3. Sysinstall works fine, no issues there. No issues at all until I get the final "do-or-die" message and then whammo! There's a problem with /mnt/usr. Also, the root partition takes a very large amount of space. I've read the handbook, and also "Absolute BSD" and they both indicate that the root partition should take around 128MB of space. But my install won't take that at all. I'm choosing to install "All", source, executables, the whole shebang. But still, it doesn't seem that the 1G of space I'm allocating jives at all with the stated 128MB requirement? What's up with that? Once the install completes -- it makes it past the /mnt/usr problem, at least initially -- the reboot indicates that I need to do a manual fsck, which, if I wasn't comfortable with Unix I'd be extremely offended by. So ... Any suggestions? My system is pretty vanilla, no unusual hardware, just a stock Dell system from three years ago, although it's got a DVD and CD/RW. Anyone please help. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
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