From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 16:43:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1B616A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro (Hawat.CC.UBBCluj.Ro [193.226.40.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED0D43D53 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:43:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from taipan@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro) Received: from hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8LGn3wJ000404 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:49:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from taipan@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro) Received: from localhost (taipan@localhost)i8LGn3s5000401 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:49:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from taipan@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:49:03 +0300 (EEST) From: Radu MOLNAR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040921193327.K375@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: instalation problem (urgent) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:43:09 -0000 I have a problem with FreeBSD instalation. I tried 5.3BETA5 5.2.1 and 4.9 all with the same result. When sysinstall starts i choose custom and proceed to creating the slice and partitions(only one slice and one partion plus swap). I tried two ways. I go to Partition, create the slice on the entire hard drive press q and choose BootMgr. Then i go to label and create my partion and swap. (in both these steps i dont write changes) I choose my distributions and them commit. When i press commit the computer instantly reboots without anything beeing done. After restart i see the slice and partitions but i cant install as get errors. The second way is to write changes when i make the slice and partitions. When making the slice there are no problems. I create it press w and get the message "Wrote FDISK partition information out succesfully." Then i go to label and create the partion and swap. When i press w i get the message "WARNING! Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b: Device not configured. This may couse the instalation to fail at some point if you dont have a lot of memory" and then "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 1" The computer is a AMD k6-2/350 Mhz, the hard drive is a Fujitsu mpb3021atu (2G), 64M RAM Any ideas? thanks Radu