Date: Thu, 27 Jun 96 17:59:07 PST From: "Robert Batten" <rbatten@candle.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help! My previously docile Freebsd system has gone nuts! Message-ID: <9605278359.AA835913085@SMTPGWY.CANDLE.COM>
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To whom it may concern;
I have had to reinstall Freebsd to my system after some files had
become corrupted. When I first installed the 2.1 release to my PC-DOS
system I encountered few problems that I could not readily attribute
to operator error. The system ran fine for a period of 4 months until
I corrupted some files by shutting down the server via tripping on the
power cord!
I accepted my fate and was prepared to reinstall from the CD-ROM just
like before. I was not pleasantly surprised to discover that the
install program, the exact same floppy boot disk that I used
previously, failed to want to create a bootable image on my ide hard
drive! In fact the exact message is as follows: WARNING! Unable to
swap to /dev/wd0s1b: Device not configured. This may cause the
installation to fail at some point if you don't have a lot of memory.
Well, I have 16MB of RAM. I assume this was not enough because the
following messages followed: Unable to make new root filesystem on
/dev/rwd0a. and finally: Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting.
( As an aside, someone should have added: Have a nice Day!)
So I am stuck. Where did I go wrong?
Freebsd or Die...:=(
R Batten
S.E. Candle Corporation
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