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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.intercon.com!news.iac.net!usenet From: chris@iac.net (Chris Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.1 Installation Problems Date: 6 Dec 1995 05:13:31 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4a38pr$o00@cheyenne.iac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: twidlar.iac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 I'm having a very difficult time trying to install FreeBSD 2.1. I get to the part where all the file systems are supposed to be created, and I get "Unable to create file system on wd2a, returned 36." Or something similar (I can't remember the exact wording). Before that, I had gotten as far as installing binaries bin.bq-bin.bv (from floppy) and then I would get a write error. I've tried re-copying the floppy it died on, but it still happens. I'm using a P133, 24M EDO RAM, 812M IDE HD, Linksys Ether16 ethernet card, Stealth64 VRAM video card. Have there been any problems with this setup at all? I've tried so many different configurations, I'm at a total loss... I've tried using SCSI drives, 3 different ones in all, and the one IDE drive. I've checked and double checked the geometry, partition, and file systems, trying different sizes for root (since I got that write error before in the middle of installing the binaries). What I'm trying to do here is set up an ISP in my area. I have BSDI, but when I was looking at the specs for FreeBSD, it seemed to me that it wasn't worth spending $1000 for 16 users when I could use FreeBSD for nothing. Are there even any advantages with BSDI? If anyone can offer any help at all, I would greatly appreciate it... -chris@iac.net