From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 4: 1:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112BD37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 04:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA76581; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:59:37 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" Subject: RE: Install problems on Compaq Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:00:21 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3B540348.9B86124C@i-clue.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christoph, Thanks for the response, but I think something else is wrong. It has installed enough for the boot loader to attempt to load the kernel, then it dies saying: can't load 'kernel' At the 'ok' prompt I type 'lsdev' and it tells me: disk1: BIOS drive C: disk1s1a: FFS 128MB disk1s1b: swap 128MB disk1s1e: FFS 1758MB ok What's that you say about the RAM Disk not big enough? Is their something I can do about that? The PC has 32Mb RAM. Thanks, Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christoph Sold Sent: 17 July 2001 11:20 To: Patrick O'Reilly Cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Install problems on Compaq Patrick O'Reilly schrieb: > > Help? > > I'm trying to install 4.2 on an old Compaq Deskpro. When trying to write > /bin and /src, etc from the CD I get errors saying that -1 bytes were > written ?!? Disk full error, isn't it? Either your partitions are too small, or your RAM disk is not big enough to unpack some binaries. > This same CD has been used to install a dozen other PCs without a hitch! > Does anyone know if there is anything special about old Compaq Deskpros (It > is a 200 MMX processor). It would do that, too. Repartition again, and keep an eye to partition sizes. On old boxes, choosing default (automatic) partition sizes causes some pretty crazy results. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message