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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.cc.sunysb.edu!jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu!cfanning From: cfanning@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Chris Fanning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Early install problem Date: 16 Nov 1995 23:15:43 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 33 Message-ID: <48ggmv$4fu@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] This is the first time I've ever tried to install FreeBSD and am running into a peculiar problem early on in the process. I'm trying to install 951104-SNAP. I've tried compatible mode and non-compatible mode and I get similar results. (using ALL of the disk vs DOS compatible mode) When I try to write label changes and mount the drive I get: Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rsd1a! Command returned status 1 And DEBUG shows: newfs: /dev/rsd1a: 'a' partition unavailable This is the minimal number of steps to start the whole problem. I can also get the kernel to panic during my install. Now, it gets a little better. If I drop to a fixit disk, I can newfs rsd1c by hand, but there is no rsd1d either! rsd1a should be / rsd1b swap rsd1c should be /var (only one I've got!) rsd1d should be /usr I think? Am I just screwed in that this happens to be a problem with this snapshot? Am I doing something wrong? (Can't think of what here... :( ) TIA, Chris