Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 21:03:38 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <20070703190338.GA50127@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <000301c7bd9d$72740630$d5b9bfcf@lisac> References: <000301c7bd9d$72740630$d5b9bfcf@lisac>
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--EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:10:24PM -0400, Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3 (because that's the latest distro = I=20 > have CD's for) on a brand new system with a 80 G harddrive and 2 G RAM. Since 5.3 is no supported anymore, I suggest that you download 6.2 images. =20 > I boot from Disk 1 of the 5.3 disk set and choose to begin a standard=20 > installation. Next is the fdisk utility to partition the drive. The first= =20 > thing I get is a message which states: >=20 > WARNING: A geometry of 155061/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more=20 > likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect or if you are unsure wheth= er=20 > or not it's correct, please consult the hardware guide in the documentati= on=20 > submenu or use the (G)eometry command to change it now. I've ignored this every time I saw it without adverse results. > I can choose OK and get past this. I choose to devote the entire disk to= =20 > FreeBSD, and install the FreeBSD boot manager. Next I need to partition m= y=20 > drive. The defaults won't do at all (this machine is to be a radius serv= er=20 > & mail server and the default size of /var is too small). I chose 2000M f= or=20 > /, 4000M for swap (using 2 x RAM), 200M for /tmp, 20,000M for /usr and th= e=20 > remainder for /var. 2000M for / is quite a lot. On my system, root gets 200M. It only uses about 90M currently. =20 > Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev. The creation of file= =20 > systems will be aborted. >=20 > ad0s1b is my swap partition. I changed the size of swap to 2000M thinking= =20 > perhaps it was too large but I get the same error about unable to find=20 > device node..... >=20 > I've googled this but haven't found anything that helped me resolve this.= =20 > Any body on this list know what I need to do to get FreeBSD installed on= =20 > this drive? If it still fails the same way with 6.2, I'd submit a problem report. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGip2KEnfvsMMhpyURAjEgAKCADMexeueTvdlYSdprb0Qv0V1yAwCdEDlV Zavp8Y6+O5PoF1PX45OeDQc= =q+g+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--
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