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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!usenet From: ozzieg@mindspring.com (The Ottoman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Error at installation time concerning hard drive Date: 6 Jun 1995 15:49:50 GMT Organization: Computer Process Controls Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3r1teu$13fa@firehose.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ozzieg.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.3 I am having trouble getting past the installation. I have the slices assigned and then proceed to the next phase where a screen pops up "newfs /dev/?." After about 15 seconds an error message comes up saying a timeout has occured "wd0g:" waiting to execute 'fsbn'". Also when I am booting from the floppy to get back to the installation screen I get a message towards the end of the boot, "wd0: can't read 32 headers ..... (controller 16 used instead)." What does this mean? Is my hard drive not compatible with BSD or do I need to move BSD's root to somewhere else. It is sitting at sector 1080000 and the hard drive is 696MB Western Digital IDE. I bought this CDROM from Walnut Creek, and it is 2.0. Thanx