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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!gateway.sequent.com!scel.sequent.com!news From: njw@kiska.svc.uk.sequent.com (Nick Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems with Installing 2.1 from IDE disk Date: 21 Feb 1996 11:34:03 GMT Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <NJW.96Feb21113403@kiska.svc.uk.sequent.com> Reply-To: njw@sequent.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kiska.svc.uk.sequent.com I'm a tad stumped here in the initial installation stages for freebsd 2.1. This is a new machine, with only IDE interfaces (seagate disk, samsung cd-rom - yes, I know about the support for the CD-ROM). I can chop up the disk fine, allocating different slices for dos and freebsd. However when I go into the labelling mode and attempt to partition up the freebsd slice, it all goes horribly wrong. The labelling fails with errors about cannot access wd0s1b for swap, cannot write to wd0s1a during root's newfs, and bombs out. Now the slicer/dicer *has* managed to write to the disk in general, and the booteasy program has been installed successfully. So it's only the partitioning phase which cannot talk to the disk. I can't see any reason for this and I'm fairly stumped right now as to what's going on. Anybody out there with any tips? Cheers, Nick.