From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 13:53:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09634 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:53:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09606 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA23628; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:52:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:52:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: NICK cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem Installing FREEBSD In-Reply-To: <35B3F35A.51027F9@tig.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, NICK wrote: > Hi Iam installing FreeBSD on my 486sx 8MB ram I boot in the boot disk > and did all the steps and after it wrote everything to the C: drive I > get this error message when it attempts to read the CD ROM ;- > > error mounting /dev/matcdoC on dist: Input Output Error(5) > > Please help me.... Fetch a new boot floppy from ftp.freebsd.org. This is a known bug. >From the 2.2.6 ERRATA: o The older Matsushita (Panasonic), Sony CDU-31 and Mitsumi (non-IDE) CDROM drives no longer permit CDROM installs. Fix: Fetch an updated boot floppy from the updates/ directory, e.g.: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/updates/2.2.6-RELEASE/boot.flp Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message