From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 20:58:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA12843 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 20:58:08 -0800 Received: from arl-img-2.compuserve.com (arl-img-2.compuserve.com [198.4.7.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA12836 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 20:58:07 -0800 Received: by arl-img-2.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.941228sam) id XAA06622; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 23:57:34 -0500 Date: 30 Mar 95 23:54:52 EST From: "Leonard W. Mah" <73664.2073@compuserve.com> To: FreeBSD Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Message-ID: <950331045452_73664.2073_DHR60-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My system is configuration is: Alaris 486SLC2-66Mhz Motherboard 8MB WD 540MB hd WD 250MB slave drive Pro Audio Spectrum with NEC 2X CD-ROM The beginning of the installation went flawlessly until it was time to install the distributions onto the slave drive. I kept on getting the following message: "SCSI timeout -- WAIT_FOR_REQ--pas.c:891." However, this happened only at the end of the bindist installation and it appeared that it wrote the binaries correctly to my hd because I got the end of bindist dialog box. It only took about 6.6 MB of disk space...does that sound right? All of the smaller distributions installed without the SCSI timeout error. Then, upon installing XFREE86, the checksums verified correctly I got the extracting, please wait message. Nothing happened after that with no activity from the CD ROM drive or the slave drive. I waited a good 10 minutes to be sure, and it just sat there doing nothing. Is there another way to install XFREE86 that is not too painful? I would have to say that other than this problem I am more impressed with FreeBSD than Linux, but as an ex Cal Bear I am a just a little biased. Any help would be appreciated...and thanks for your time. Leonard W. Mah