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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "device not configured" during install
Date: 13 Apr 1996 00:46:56 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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kls@argus.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Karl L. Swartz) writes:

> The disk *is* writable -- if I go to the FixIt disk I can even newfs
> /dev/rsd0a and then mount it.  No problems.  If I try to partition it
> from the boot floppy, though, I get the error about swap space and

Can you tell us about the messages on your second screen (Alt-F2)?
(You can also try to turn on `debug' in the options screen.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)