Installation problems with BSD install ISO and SunBlade 1000

[Super Bisquit]

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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>wrote:
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>>  On 03/09/11 10:27, Super Bisquit wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
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>>>  On 03/09/11 09:29, Super Bisquit wrote:
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>>>>  Keyboard layout is not properly recognized. Non Sun keyboard.
>>>> Neither pc-sysinstall nor sysinstall will allow the creation of more
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>>>> two partitions. When multiple partitions are created, it fails with not
>>>> being able to find the superblock.
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>>> Can you please provide more details? What keyboard layout did you select,
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>> The last layout on the list us type
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>>> what kind of keyboard are you using?
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>> ViewSonic PC105 usb
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>> I forgot to ask: what specifically did you mean by "Not properly
>> recognized"?
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> The layout is PC105. The vertical separator is instead located where the
> tilde key is, the question mark key is located at the number 6.
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>>   How did you attempt to lay out the partitions on disk?
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>> /(root) swap /var /tmp /usr /usr/local /home
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>>> At what point and from where did you get the error about the superblock?
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>> After the reboot, using pcsysinstall and the layout above. It dropped
>> immediately into single user mode
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>> OK, so from the kernel. Which filesystem was it complaining about?
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> I used the freebsd-ufs. Everything after swap was not recognized. Also, the
> last install would not let me create a /usr/local.
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>> -Nathan
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> I have to step out away from my SPARC and PPC machines for a couple of
> days. Apologies beforehand  if the next reply is delayed.
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> Desmond
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