Unable to install freebsd
Andrew Kozak
akozak at richardflanagan.com.au
Sun Jan 4 20:01:58 PST 2004
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 at 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.
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