Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1301 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6076 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD, tragedy! Date: 20 Oct 1993 15:37:33 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 46 Message-ID: <2a3lvt$qpi@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CF6D73.KEJ@latcs1.lat.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu FYI - Problems in FreeBSD with the disklabel not 'sticking' to the drive and problems with the install program saying '/: file system full' are due to a now know and somewhat fixable problem. Work is proceeding in that area even as I write this. In article <CF6D73.KEJ@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, M.C. Wong <wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wrote: >Please wait. Examining drive /dev/rwd0d... > >uid 0 on /:file system full > >/: write failed, file system is full This is a known problem, and a fix is being worked on. >Partitions Offset* Size* Name >0 0 0 (unused) >0 0 0 (unused) >0 0 0 (unused) >0 0 0 (unused) >* Sizea and offsets are in units of cylinders. This is a completely different problem. You've lost the partition table, and probably the Master Boot Record. You'll need to recreate all of the above info. before you can re-install FreeBSD. Everything below this point is bogus, since you're going to have to re-install with a partition table. > So, I wonder if anyone of you have a clue what happens there ? Did I screw >up the disk drive geometry or disk drive type in early installation step ? >But I was following all of the geometry as reported by pfdisk run from within >DOS before. How can I go wrong ? The partition table got wiped out. I *doubt* that FreeBSD did it, but stranger things have happened. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me