Thank you all for the support I tried multiple partitions with no avail. For example: ad0s1a (/) 128 MB ad0s1b (swap) 432 MB ad0s1e (/var) 256 MB ad0s1f (/tmp) 256 MB ad0s1g (/usr) 5077 MB I tried another route and just install with success redhat 7.1, this is LINUX, not my favorite. It is running OK. Retried FreeBSD and same messages: (1) Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b invalid argument (device not configure) (2) Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad0s1a (3) Couldn't make filesystems properly
In the BIOS the hard disk is configured as having 13328 cylinders x 15 heads x 63 sectors as per specifications from Western Digital. I tried using these parameters. Did not work. After installing REDHAT, the parameters used were 784 cylinders x 255 heads x 63 sectors. I left those settings to re-install FreeBSD, did not work. The partition looks like this OFFSET**SIZE(ST)*END*****NAME*PTYPE*DESC*SUBTYPE*FLAGS* 0********63*******62********-******6***UNUSED**0********-**** 63*****12594897*12594959**ad0s1****3***FREEBSD*165******CA=* It appear that the installation is not capable of formatting the hard disk properly... Anyway I am loading release 4.8 and will try with this older version instead. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francisco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Claude Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 10:18 AM Subject: Re: Installation failure with version 4.9 > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Claude Fournier wrote: > > > No, unfortunately I did not try a smaller root slice. > > I was following advise from Greg Lehey "The Complete FreeBSD" published by > > O'Reilly who suggested to part with custom practice. I tried the suggested > > Auto slice without success > > As somene else suggested on the list there are reasons why some people > recommend multiple partitions. It's almost a religious argument.. > > If Auto slice did not work then you have other problems. Did you get a > warning or error when doing the space allocation? For example an error > about geometry? > > You left the list out in your reply.. feel free to CC the list again so > others can also comment. > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"