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However, when it starts to install, it fails saying the filesystem is
full. This can't be. It's a 40Gb drive. I started by overwriting my
hd using a utility called boot and nuke. Then I allocated the whole
thing to freebsd and made that partition bootable. Then in disklabel,
I'm trying to install FreeBSD for the first time but I am having an error
that I can't figure out. I have googled for an answer and read mailing list
posts but still can't find what I'm looking for. First, when the disk boots
and checks the hardware, it does something strange to my network
Your router light turning yellow could be an indication that it has been reset
and has entered an auto-negotiation mode where it determines what speed to
configure itself as, i.e., either 10 or 100.
Try waiting until it turns green to proceed with the install, rather than
aborting and
It's a netgear router. The thing is, it does go way over 2 min. Here's
what it does. When I am initially booting off the disk and it checks the
hardware for the first time it turns it yellow. Then, when I first try to
connect to an ftp it turns it green but it never connects. When I hit
So is your netgear router attached to a cable or dsl modem? Could you connect
your box directly to the modem, at least until you get installed?
I don't understand why you used boot and nuke. When you get to
the partition editor, do you delete all the partitions, then make
one and mark it
