Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4

albi at scii.nl albi at scii.nl
Fri Aug 12 20:36:18 GMT 2005


On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:22:25 -0700 (PDT)
Milscvaer <millueradfa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have 32 MB of RAM. I tried going in and setting the
> partition to active but this didnt make a difference.
> I only have one hard disk. I did boot a fixit floppy
> and mounted and looked at the filesystem, and noticed
> that the kernel* file under the / directory is still
> the old kernel from the old installation I had on the
> system, not the 5.4 kernel. When I try to delete the
> file it first asks me if I would like to override
> r-xr-xr-x root/0 schg. I hit y, and it then says
> operation not permitted. I do not know why it will not
> let me delete this file. I try doing a chmod a+w
> kernel on it, but it wont let me do that either.

(man chflags)
chflags noschg filename

5.4 has the kernel in /boot btw (and not in / as in 4.x)


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