Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 18:52:23 -0800 From: barkovich@uclac2.chem.ucla.edu To: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: installation trouble Message-ID: <95032018522356@uclac2.chem.ucla.edu>
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I am having trouble with the installation of FreeBSD 2.0 for Intel based PCs. Originally, I was having all sorts of problems with the installation, the main problem being that my CD-ROM drive would timeout. I would get the following message: scsi timeout--WAIT_FOR_REQ--pas.c:891 cd0(pas0:1:0):unit attention I would also occasionally get checksum errors in some packages. I called Walnut Creek CDROM and told them the problem. They told me it was probably a bad CD and sent me a new one. Upon receiving this new CD-ROM, I tried the installation again and everything went OK until I tried to install XFree86. The bindist package installed fine, as did manpages. I didn't try any others at the time. When I tried to install X Windows, the same thing happened that happened to all the packages before. The unit would check the checksums (this time they were OK) and go on to say "extracting distribution" and then just die. It was not reading the CDROM and there was no hard disk activity. I left it alone for 1.5 hours and still nothing happened. I got out of that state by using control-backslash and it put me back in the installation menu. I tried it other times and I could not install X Windows. When I checked the kernel messages in the installation program there were some new lines: pid xxx: dialog: uid 0:exited on signal 3 pid yyy: sh: uid 0: exited on signal 3 pid zzz: sh: uid 0: exited on signal 3 (where xxx, yyy, and zzz are three random [as far as I can tell] three digit numbers) This always happens. I don't know if it's my hardware situation, but if it is, why doesn't it happen to the other packages such as bindist? Has anyone else had this problem? Is there anything I can do to install the packages manually from the CDROM? I would appreciate any help anyone can give me. I do have one last question as well....Is there any way to install the packages after installation such as going back to the installation program? Thanks... Robert Barkovich barkovich@uclach.chem.ucla.edu
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