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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ah0i+ From: "Andrew A. Houghton" <ah0i+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: freebsd 1.1.5.1 install prob Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 00:09:44 -0400 Organization: Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 45 Message-ID: <Iib=A8S00WB=0WrrNp@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu I'm taking the plunge and attempting an install of 1.1.5.1 to my machine; I can't progress beyond the filesystem floppy stage. My machine: 486/66, 32MB, ISA/VESA bus (no VESA cards), Adaptec 1542C driving two floppies, a Fujitsu HD, IBM HD, Toshiba CDROM, and Archive DAT drive. The only important piece of the previous list is the Fujitsu, which is what I'm attempting the install to. It's a 2694ESA, 1080 MB. DOS occupies the first half of the disk -- the geometry (as understood by dos) is 131 cylinders, 255 heads, and 63 sectors per track. Dos occupies 0-63, ideally sometime in the future FreeBSD will occupy 64-131. What follows is from memory, but the idea should be understandable: 1) progress through definition of disk partitions, everything works. 2) FreeBSD asks 'verbose installation?' Either yes or no munges equivalently (not surprisingly). 3) two large chunks of text go by. Then a series of messages, complaining that directories (bin, sbin, etc..) couldn't be created since the filesystem is full. This continues, attempting to copy various utils, until it just loops forever with the aforementioned error. More information: I ask that the root partition size be 2 cylinders. I ask that the swap partition size be 8 cylinders. I ask the /usr get the rest. What am I doing wrong? Email would be preferred, but only because it tends to be faster.. I'll see any posts on the subject. Thanks for any help, Andrew