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#! rnews 1729 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tyger.inna.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5-Release install problem Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 21:01:32 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3205721C.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> References: <4u3kp9$6f5@venus.texoma.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Jason Young <jyoung@texoma.com> Jason Young wrote: > > I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 for the first time. I've read > everything I can find regarding the installation process without luck. > > I have downloaded the entire /bin directory from one of the mirror > sites and put it in a dos partition on the same disk as I will put the > FreeBSD partition. Everything seems to go well during the > installation process. It slows considerably however starting with > chunk 48 and remains slow for the next 5 or so chunks. > > Once the installation procedure ends, I get the message: > "MAKEDEV returned non-zero status" 100% I think you're running into the problem where data read from certain MSDOS partitions is corrupted, and there's no cure other than to substantially rewrite the msdosfs code, which is underway, or choose a different installation medium. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project