From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 21 17:43:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18415 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 17:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.i-connect.net (qmailr@thor.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA18410 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 17:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9818 invoked by uid 4028); 22 May 1997 02:20:42 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:13:40 -0700 (PDT) From: ron@cts.com To: "Tse_Jimmy" Subject: RE: Help on installation of FreeBSD v2.1 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When you get to the screen where you assign unix partitions, after you assign "/", type=BSD, make a swap, then the rest of your partitions (some just make a "/" (root) partition the size of the disk less the swap area but you would be better served if you had separate partitions for /, /usr and /var. On 21-May-97 "Tse_Jimmy" wrote: >> > ><<<<<< Attached TEXT file named "mailsign" follows >>>>>> >I hate to ask for assistence in something so trivia but I am new to the Unix >world. I am having so much problem installing FreeBSD in my 133mhz clone with >16m of RAM and 1.2 g harddisk I need all the help I can get. > >I am not sure about the problem I have because of my inexperience with Unix >or problem with equipment. I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.11 through the >CDROM. I setup a DOS partition with barebone DOS with CDROM drivers loaded >at startup. I then ran INSTALL from the CDROM. Created the BSD partitions >and designated it to be bootable. I would get an error message "UNABLE TO >SWAP TO /DEV/WD0S1B: DEVICE NOT CONFIGURED" but I was able to bypass it. On >the next step, I would get another error message "UNABLE TO MAKE NEW ROOT >FILESYSTEM ON /DEV/RWD0A!: COMMAND RETURNED STATUS 1". The process will >abort after this point. > >I am confused because when I created the partitions, I cannot mount any swap >volumes nor can I create any other volume other than /usr or the root. So, >how can I resolve the errors? I, somehow, got it loaded last night but >cannot get the Ethernet card going so I decided to reload the software again >to see if I can run the full setup but I keep getting those error messages. > >I am also getting error message about "NO CDROM DEVICES FOUND - CHECK SYSTEM >CONFIGURATION". DOS found the CD but why FreeBSD does not? > >HELP !! Thank you for your help. > ---------------------------------- E-Mail: ron@cts.com Date: 05/21/97 Time: 19:13:40 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------