From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 9:37:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (BROCCOLI.GRAPHICS.CORNELL.EDU [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC37914CF7 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA093442655; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:37:36 -0400 Message-Id: <199906101637.AA093442655@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Steve Gasbarre Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation problem from DOS partition In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:46:18 EDT." <375F350A.F3D9F2DB@bright.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:37:35 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you sure your hard disk isn't flaking out? "write failure" is not a CDROM problem... -Mitch >I tried to install FreeBSD 3.1 from my Hitachi CDR-7730 (4X) CDROM >drive. Many of the package installations fail -- write failure on >transfer -- but when I attempt to install from a DOS directory >(C:\FREEBSD) and chose the correct path it fails -- no root device found >- or - file system full. >I've deleted and recreated the FreeBSD slice many times, but I don't >know what to do at this point. >Hopefully I haven't overlooked some important instruction. > >I've cleaned the CDROM drive, but that didn't seem to help. Is a new >Sony CDU711 32X CDROM Drive a good choice? Is there any way I can set >the installation to use different variables so I have a better chance of >the installation going through? > >Curiously, I had FreeBSD 3.0 installed last week, but deleted it after >messing the X Windows configuration files. It (along with SuSE 6.1) >won't install, but other things from Win95 seem to be OK. > >Thanks for any help! > >SteveG@bright.net > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message