Problems while trying to install FreeBSD 7.1

[Zbigniew Baniewski]

Hallo,

Perhaps you'll find it helpful - so I would to let you know about a few
issues, which I've encountered during my attempt to install 7.1:

- it's always "hanging up" itself while trying to run system with ACPI
  (default). But about ACPI-related problems with my GA-6BX7 mobo I was
  writing several months ago to freebsd-acpi, and personally to Mr. Nate
  Lawson

- with ACPI disabled (option 2) I was able to boot - but there are still
  "out of inodes" problem, that's making installation impossible. Even, if I
  tried to use newfs with lowest values possible (f.e. -i4096 -b8192 -f1024),
  it's still complaining, that it ran out of inodes (installation variant
  "user + Xwindow" - not "all available packages"). I'm using SiI3512 SATA
  controller, with Barracuda 80 GB attached. Size of FreeBSD partition was
  almost 20 GB - and it's unable to complete the installation.

- there are a little problems using fdisk - after quitting it, the installer
  utility sometimes doesn't want to advance to next step (disklabel), when
  I didn't make any changes to partitions

Didn't have any chance to detect more problems - although the first two seems
to be pretty serious ones, because, in the end, I was unable to install 7.1.
I'm sorry to say, that the 6.x line didn't have such issues (although not
tried the newest 6.4).
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				pozdrawiam / regards

						Zbigniew Baniewski