Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:07:50 +0300 (MSK) From: Ozz!!! <osa@unibest.ru> To: Dennis Alverson <dalverson@utech.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation question. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980318170427.16861C-100000@hole.etrust.ru> In-Reply-To: <01bd5206$173b8520$b3b33dce@default>
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Dennis Alverson wrote: > I have had problem installing FreeBSD 2.2.5 from CD. > > I boot from a floppy, and after setting up a 1 GB SCSI drive with a FreeBSD > bootable partition, I proceed to install from CD. I have a SCSI CDROM drive > being accessed through an Adaptec 2540 SCSI controller. The installation > begins ok and several of the bin.* files are read from the bin directory on > the installation CD. It get about 20% into the installation and halts with > an error saying: > > Failing to find bin/bin.ap on this media. Reinitializing media... > > After rebooting to Windows 95, I examined the installation CD to see if the > bin.ap file was on the CD in the appropriate directory and it is. > > I tried the installation twice to no avail. I can't understand why it is > able to find the initial bin files and not bin.ap, which is located in the > same place, unless I have a bad CD. > > Do you have any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Dennis Alverson > > Hmmm... If you want, you may trying install FreeBSD from DOS-partition... Copy "bin" from CD-ROM to DOS-patition ( disk C: ), & boot from floppy. Rgdz, oZZ, osa@unibest.ru P.S. check your CD-ROM & CD-ROM-drive !! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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