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From: cfanning@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Chris Fanning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bad floppy install in 951104snap
Date: 17 Nov 1995 01:00:06 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Ah-ha! Someone else with precisely the same problem I'm having.
Christine Maxwell (kaila@crl.com) wrote:
: I think i've found what appears to be a problem with installing from
: floppy with the current 2.1 snap... i've tried it on two machines, and it
: won't work on either...many of the problems on the debug screen scroll by
: too fast for me to read, but these were reported on the dialog screen
I'm not having too many errors on the debug screen. Only when I get to
your second error.
:
: "Unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b device not configured"
: and
: "unable to make file system on /dev/rwd0a command returned status one"
^- root
I get these exact errors. With the exception that my drives are SCSI
drives. In my other post I gave the relevant debug information. I also
have a lot more of the debug info squirreled away somewhere. It comes
down to newfs not being able to create a new filesystem I think.
My configuration when I started to install FBSD and when I finally gave up
I had removed one of the SCSI cards.
2 NCR 810 SCSI controllers
0 - Quantum Atlas 2.1GB
a) 200MB DOS partition
b) linux
c) linux swap
1 - Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB
brand spankin' new
A)ll configuration
root, swap, var, usr
: Christine
Hmm... maybe it has something to do with the name of the installer? :)
Chris