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Date:      Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:46:18 -0400
From:      Steve Gasbarre <SteveG@bright.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   FreeBSD Installation problem from DOS partition
Message-ID:  <375F350A.F3D9F2DB@bright.net>

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I tried to install FreeBSD 3.1 from my Hitachi CDR-7730 (4X) CDROM
drive.  Many of the package installations fail -- write failure on
transfer -- but when I attempt to install from a DOS directory
(C:\FREEBSD) and chose the correct path it fails -- no root device found
- or - file system full.
I've deleted and recreated the FreeBSD slice many times, but I don't
know what to do at this point.
Hopefully I haven't overlooked some important instruction.

I've cleaned the CDROM drive, but that didn't seem to help. Is a new
Sony CDU711 32X CDROM Drive a good choice?  Is there any way I can set
the installation to use different variables so I have a better chance of
the installation going through?

Curiously, I had FreeBSD 3.0 installed last week, but deleted it after
messing the X Windows configuration files.  It (along with SuSE 6.1)
won't install, but other things from Win95 seem to be OK.

Thanks for any help!

SteveG@bright.net



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