Re: Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100

2004-11-15 Thread Matthew T. Lager
I put a 20GB maxtor into my V100... Matt L > Hi Matt, > > Thanks for the quick reply. The error you got is the same one I saw but > my V100 has the 40GB disk. > > I plan to replace the drive as you suggest. I'm looking at a good deal on > 2 80 GB 7200 RPM drives w/8MB cache right now. One driv

Re: Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100

2004-11-15 Thread Scott Rossillo
Hi Matt, Thanks for the quick reply. The error you got is the same one I saw but my V100 has the 40GB disk. I plan to replace the drive as you suggest. I'm looking at a good deal on 2 80 GB 7200 RPM drives w/8MB cache right now. One drive is a Maxtor - which I have been very happy with in the

Re: Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100

2004-11-15 Thread Matthew T. Lager
Scott, I assume you are using the 80 gig drive that shipped with it. I was unable to get FreeBSD installed on that drive no matter what I did... I put another IDE drive in the Sun V100 and FreeBSD installed with no problems. I took the 80 gig drive that shipped with the V100 and put it in an i386

Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100

2004-11-15 Thread Scott Rossillo
Hello, I am having a problem installing FreeBSD 5.3 onto a Sun Fire v100 server with one IDE disk /dev/ad0. When I try to write the new filesystem layout to disk, it gives me the error: Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0a! Command returned status 36 Not sure what the problem is. So