From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 17 14:28:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA08769 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:28:00 -0700 Received: from stu.beloit.edu (stu.beloit.edu [144.89.40.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA08763 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:27:55 -0700 Received: by stu.beloit.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA22998; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:26:21 -0500 From: walcottt@stu.beloit.edu (Tom Walcott) Message-Id: <9510172126.AA22998@stu.beloit.edu> Subject: Problem installing. To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:26:21 +22299548 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1232 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.0 on a 486SX with 4 megs of RAM and a 125 meg hard drive. After rawriting boot_144.flp and cpio.flp onto two 1.44 disks, I booted up and used fdisk and disklabel to set up the hard drive. (20 megs for /, 12 for swap, 93 for /usr.) Going to proceed, there was a message at the attempt to install sysinstall: recal failed ST0 80 cyl fd0c: hard error rep. head> ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 53 hd 1 sec 3 zcat: stdin: Input/output error This is in the background, but it keeps going. At the reboot from the hard drive: exec /stand/sysinstall: error 8 init: not found panic: no init And it panic reboots. This is a lot of fun, and a great way to spend the day, but I was wondering if there's something that I'm doing wrong, or any way that I could actually get it to boot. I tried using a different boot disk, and got exactly the same response. Thinking that it might be the hard drive, I then defined the first partition as /notouch, b as swap, e as /, and d as /usr. I made notouch 20 megs, on the principle that then it would encompass the space that / would have earlier. No dice, same error. Thank you very much for your attention! Tom Walcott Beloit College Computer Services