Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:08:37 +1000 From: "Andrew Kozak" <akozak@richardflanagan.com.au> To: "FreeBSD Newbies" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to install freebsd Message-ID: <3FF8E345.000001.01568@AKOZAK> References: <200401050240.i052eO78090181@mail5.mx.voyager.net>
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Hi All I also had the same problem. I reinstalled 4.9 today (major unrecoverable mess in my setup, reinstall was the only option, but we wont get into that here), several attempts, and found that I always had an error I have never heard of, and darned if I can remember it now. I know I should have written it down, but was blaming operator error at this stage, and just kept going. I then popped in my trusty old 4.7 cd and oi oi oi, we are up and running 20 mins later Is there a problem with 4.9 ? or did I get a dodgy distro ? I tried the suggested directions below, but did not solve my problem. Ahh well, thank goodness for ports and cvsup. ;) I guess that's the greatest thing about BSD got a prob, well there is always an option. Regards Andy -------Original Message------- From: rob copsey Date: 05/01/2004 12:42:14 PM To: Claude Fournier Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install freebsd Greetings, I've noticed that the sysinstall program has a small quirk. If you elect to discontinue the installation process after the filesystem has been created; subsequently restarting the process without a reboot will yield an error. So, please attempt to install once again without choosing to cancel and restart, if you haven't already done so. Good Luck & All the best, Rob > I want to learn more about freebsd and consequently I have purchased a new motherboard SYNTAX, DURON AMD integrated video card, sound and ethernet. The computer has 256 MB of memory, an old western digital 6 GiG hard disk and a CDROM 40X. I burned the ISO image of 4.8 and 4.9 release and ran the SYSINSTALL. I can only go as far as : (1) unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b and (2) unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad0s1a. Needless to say, I can not run freebsd. I created on big slice, actually the whole hard disk, and partition according to instructions selecting the auto option. Is there more information I could get on how to get around this issue. > Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies- unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- CoreComm Webmail. http://home.core.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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