El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, "Brian McCann" <bjmcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb > > drive, but every time I try it fails. sysinstall says "Unable to make > > new root filesystem on /dev/da0s1a1. Command returned status 38". > > When I switch to the debug console, I get "cg 0: bad magic number". > > This thumb drive was being used on my Windows machine previously, then > > I re-formatted it as UFS to use it on a FreeBSD machine...so I know > > the thumb drive itself works. Can someone shed some light on this > > problem? > > I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the > thumb drive (such as it was a new "disk" right from the factory) > and let sysinstall put slice and partitions onto it. The problem is that 'from the factory' sometimnes they come already Windows-like formated; I've wiped out all with: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m (double check that /dev/da0 is really the device you want to clean) matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.ap...@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ SPAMer of the year: Subject: Alle Software ist Deutsche Sprachen >From: -40 % die Neujahrsaktion <gabriellekel...@grungecafe.com> _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"