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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:26:21 +22299548 (CDT)
From:      walcottt@stu.beloit.edu (Tom Walcott)
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Problem installing.
Message-ID:  <9510172126.AA22998@stu.beloit.edu>

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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<invld> cyl
fd0c: hard error rep. head>
ST1 1<no_am> 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



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