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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl11.crl.com!not-for-mail From: kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: bad floppy install in 951104snap Date: 13 Nov 1995 21:02:46 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4897tm$mu0@crl11.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl11.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I think i've found what appears to be a problem with installing from floppy with the current 2.1 snap... i've tried it on two machines, and it won't work on either...many of the problems on the debug screen scroll by too fast for me to read, but these were reported on the dialog screen "Unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b device not configured" and "unable to make file system on /dev/rwd0a command returned status one" I got the same errors on both machines (one of which has 2.0R installed and running well) they have different controllers, one is eide and one is either ide or eide (it's not my machine) the small machine has 8 meg of ram and 1.51 gig of hard drive space, the bigger one has 12 meg of ram and 1.2 gig of hard drive space... the floppy boots fine, and the install procedure runs well until they need to write the the hard drive, at which point it gives those types of errors, and aborts... can anyone give me an idea of how to work around this? At the moment all i can think of is to use the 2.0.5 install floppy to make the file systems, and install over them... Thanks a lot... Christine