From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 17:19:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6824916A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.mmedia.is (smtp.mmedia.is [217.151.180.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFEF143D45 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baldur@foo.is) Received: from acabus (tesla.foo.is [217.151.166.96])i3E0J6eY014068; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:19:07 GMT From: Baldur Gislason To: jason Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:19:05 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200404011954.51014.baldur@foo.is> <407C61B6.1020005@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <407C61B6.1020005@ec.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404140019.05393.baldur@foo.is> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:18:15 -0700 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalid realloc size of 0 when installing on an AMD athlonXP barton poweredmachine X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:19:17 -0000 Turned out to be a bug in sysinstall when booting from a floppy and installing over a network, I had no problems when I just wrote the ISO but I prefer network install since it takes me about an hour to download the ISO, and by that time I could have the machine up and running if I used network install. Baldur On Tuesday 13 April 2004 21:55, jason wrote: > Baldur Gislason wrote: > >I'm trying to install 5.2.1-rel from FTP with an intel 100Mb network card > > on an AMD AthlonXP barton 2500+ with an Aopen AK77-8XN motherboard and > > 1GB ram. When at 65% through extracting base, sysinstall crashes with the > > message: Fatal error: Invalid realloc size of 0! - PRESS ANY KEY TO > > REBOOT I know this is a very common problem these days, has any solution > > been found? I'd rather sell this machine than using some other operating > > system on it. > > > >Baldur > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I have an athlon barton core on an epox 8rda3i. I have never seen this > problem and I cvsup every few weeks on current. I have not done a clean > install since last year. Is that a local ftp or the net? Can you make > a cd from the iso, or do you not want to? I have done both in the past > and the cd is much faster, even if you hae broad band. Maybe not if you > have a t3 or better, but not all ftp servers will be fast all the time. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"