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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 95 13:08 EST
From:      Mitchell Ackerman <0006619934@mcimail.com>
To:        FreeBSD support <bugs@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   CDROM installation problems
Message-ID:  <75950320180857/0006619934PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>

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I have just got through installing FreeBSD on my PC.  I encountered some
problems, on of the worst with the CDROM.  It keeps on giving me checksum
errors, but if I retry it sometimes it will work.  Additionally I keep getting
timeout messages, at which point it retries automatically, and so far it has
always managed to finish what it is doing (e.g., installing something).

Is there anything to be done about these checksum & timeout errors?  I am
running on a Comtrade 486DX2/66, with a DTC3290ASE (i think) EISA SCSI
controller.  The CDROM is a mitsumi FX001 using the mitsumi interface card
(non-scsi).

One related problem that I had was that I got a checksum error attempting to
install XWindows, and had to reboot before completing the installation.  I thus
had no users defined so could not login and had to reinstall.  (I have since
found out that I could have used root to login?).

Mitchell.






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