From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 07:50:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29795 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:50:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29738 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:50:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newshirt@best.com) Received: from newshirt.vip.best.com (newshirt.vip.best.com [206.86.1.143]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id HAA08437 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:47:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803261547.HAA08437@proxy3.ba.best.com> X-Sender: newshirt@shell7.ba.best.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:47:09 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: tony cappellini Subject: BSD 2.2.5 install problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA29743 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I'm using a Adaptec 2940UW, and 2 Seagate 2.1GB SCSI drives, Pentium 100, 64MB ram. (booting from the Cdrom is enabled in the 2940 bios) 1rst Try When I try booting 2.25 from my SCSI CDRom I get the following messages "A bootable CDrom is detected in your CDrom drive" "The boot sections on your bootable CDrom are :0. Default Entry" "Your cdrom drive is inserted as Drive A: (0h). The original drive A" has become drive b:" Then the system sits there indefinitely. 2nd try So I tried booting to the HD, then running install forn the Cdrom. This works well, until I get to the "Select Distribution Medium" section of Lehey's book "The Complete Free BSD" (2nd edition), then when I select CDRom, it tells me no Cdroms were found. 3rd try Then I tried copying the CDrom to a dos partition, using the setup.exe program (which was described in the sysinstall documentation), and after a few seconds of CDrom and HD activity, an error message is displayed "x32bin.tgz" is missing, and the copying aborts. How could they have left a file off of the install cdrom ??? Not to mention that the Walnut Creek tech support line has been busy all day. I'm guessing I'm not the only one calling in with install problems :) BTW, The CDRom works fine under W95, so I know the host  adapter/ cdrom combo is working. 4th try- If I boot from a floppy, I have the exact same symptoms as when I boot from the HD and run install from the CD rom. Any suggestions ? 5th Try, Linux ? thanks Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message