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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Early install problem Date: 17 Nov 1995 10:45:23 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 48 Message-ID: <48hp43$j2c@times.tfs.com> References: <48ggmv$4fu@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <48ggmv$4fu@abel.cc.sunysb.edu>, Chris Fanning <cfanning@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE> wrote: >This is the first time I've ever tried to install FreeBSD and am running into >a peculiar problem early on in the process. I'm trying to install >951104-SNAP. I'm not exactly sure where you're going wrong, but you've made one glaring error.. you say you newfs'd /dev/rsd1c.. oops. rsd1c is a special partition that represents the whole BSD slice of the disk.. not sure what that did but it's probably a mess.. :) (this is in the notes soemwhere and is standard for just about every unix I've ever seen) > >I've tried compatible mode and non-compatible mode and I get similar results. >(using ALL of the disk vs DOS compatible mode) When I try to write label >changes and mount the drive I get: did you try the "express install" and select "A" (Auto) partitionning (in both the slicing and dicing^H^H^H^H^H^Hpartitioning menu's) > >Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rsd1a! >Command returned status 1 not sure what you did wrong here, but sounds like you didn't allocate one.. did you do BOTH the slicing menu and the Partitionning menu? >rsd1a should be / no rsd0a unless you're installing onto the second drive? (if so you should say so) >rsd1b swap >rsd1c should be /var (only one I've got!) nonono c is the whole 'BSD part' (sometimes whole drive) you can't put a fs here.. >rsd1d should be /usr ok.. > >I think? > hard to tell .. try using the AUTO options and see what the code would do by itself?