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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:03:07 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Jethro Borsje <jborsje@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing BSD
Message-ID:  <20020714140307.GA26599@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <00db01c22b3d$41545340$0100a8c0@jethro>
References:  <00db01c22b3d$41545340$0100a8c0@jethro>

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On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 03:48:42PM +0200, Jethro Borsje wrote:
> When I tried to install FreeBSD, I got the following error:
> *Unable to make new root filesystem
> Command returned status 36*.
> 
> When I pressed *OK*, I got the following:
> *Douldn't make filesystems properly, aborting*.

That's quite likely to be a hardware issue --- either a dying disk or
an IDE controller that is not properly supported.
 
> What can I do about this?

If you hit Alt-F2 when you get the 'status 36' mesage, there should be
some more informative error messages visible.  That should tell us
exactly what's happening.

	Cheers

	Matthew

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