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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!sfurber.rain.com!sfurber From: sfurber@rip.psg.com (Steven Furber) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Reinstalling FreeBSD problems Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 08:34:14 Organization: SCS, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <sfurber.10.00089251@rip.psg.com> References: <sfurber.5.000E0761@rip.psg.com> <2vendk$62e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sfurber.rain.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] >>Anyone have any ideas why I can't re-install? The only difference in harware >>between my first installation and the re-instalation is the 16mg. >Sounds like you have bad memory or misconfigured hardware (check out >your BIOS configuration). Multi-tasking systems beat memory up pretty >hard and tend to make bad hardware show up pretty quickly. I was finally able to get FreeBSD to reinstall. When it asked me if I wanted to write over existing partitions I said no. I then accepted the defaults for the partition sizes. This failed. I redid it, only telling it *not* to offset the first partition by one. This has worked without any problems at all.