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From: "Robert Batten" <rbatten@candle.com>
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Subject: Help! My previously docile Freebsd system has gone nuts!
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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