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From: shepner@nyx.cs.du.edu (Stephen Hepner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AHA 1542CF + Maxtor 1240S no good for FreeBSD?
Date: 13 Jun 1994 11:21:01 -0600
Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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cchen@cs.sunysb.edu (temp acct to clean dir) writes:

>Hello, world,

>I'm having endless troubles trying to install FreeBSD 
>with the above combo.  The problem I'm getting is that
>when the installation procedure prompts me asking for
>the hard disk type, and I type scsi, it will print
>"uid 0, /: file system full
>  Hm, ... Sare you sure it's a scsi?(something like that)"

>And of course nothing will be written to the root file system
>if I tell the system to keep going.
>Has anyone tried the above combo?  I tried various disk
>geometries, 1024, 64, 32, etc.  But nothing worked.

>Anyone wants to make a guess as to what might be happening?
>Thanks.

Some time ago I was trying to install FreeBSD-1.0 on my system (i386DX/25
8M, Adaptec AHA 1542C, Maxtor MXT-1240S) and was getting (I think) the
exact same error.  After a lot of work with one of the developers, we gave
up and I went to NetBSD-0.9.  I havent tried FreeBSD-1.1 yet....

stephen
shepner@hera.manchester.edu
Please send replies directly to me since I dont make it here often