floppy install troubles

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 13 11:26:55 PST 2003


On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:10:34PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> At Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:48:01 +0000 (UTC),
> Peter Schultz wrote:
> > I'm having trouble installing with the 5.1-CURRENT-20031110-JPSNAP 
> > floppies I got off snapshots.jp.freebsd.org.  First off, I tried to 
> > create a new slice and it wants to use /dev/ad0p1.  I don't believe the 
> > p is correct.  I tried again without changing the slices at all, and 
> > when newfs ran the install stopped with this error: "newfs: Cannot 
> > retrieve operator gid".
> 
> I saw "p" slice too.  Is your disk is fresh one (no write after
> buying), or already used one?

Mine was totally fresh.  I had just created a HW RAID 0+1 setup.


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