From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Mar 4 21:19:16 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA26629 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 21:19:16 -0800 Received: from seraph.uunet.ca (uunet.ca [142.77.1.254]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA26619 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 21:19:11 -0800 Received: from portnoy.canrem.com ([198.133.42.17]) by mail.uunet.ca with SMTP id <174079-1>; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 00:19:48 -0500 Received: from canrem.com by portnoy.canrem.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00165; Sun, 5 Mar 95 00:15:11 EST Received: by canrem.com (PCB-UUCP 1.1f) id 1D38B2; Sat, 4 Mar 95 23:57:44 -0500 To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation problems with 2.0R From: barnaby.ng@canrem.com (Barnaby Ng) Message-Id: <60.25786.104.0C1D38B2@canrem.com> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 23:55:00 -0500 Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario) Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm the unfortunate soul who had the "Fatal code=5888" error while trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 from Walnut Creek CD. I took the "proper" way to fix the problem: changed the extended BIOS translation and low level format the drives. (Justin Gibbs suggested that I should specify 255/63 translation in fdisk, but it didn't work) Now I got passed the initial stage of installation (boot and cpio) and tried to install the bindist. After I specified the source of the bindist, sysinstall verified the checksums, and extracted some files onto my disk, and then it STOPPED. The install screen still shown "Extracting bindist distribution. Please wait!", but it just sit there, no disk i/o, no nothing. The machine was not hung. I could switch between the install and debug screen, but it just won't finish installing bindist. I'd tried other modules: no problem installing games, but ran into the same problem installing manpages. I tried changing hardware setup like slow the CD-ROM transfer rate to 5MB/sec, disable synchronous negotiation, introduce more wait state etc. NOTHING helps. The debug screen show the followings:- (a bunch of "/stand/cpio: umount linked" message) /stand/cpio:umount linked to tip umount 2286 blocks Progress Progress Progress Extracting bindist, please wait. And then it just sit there. HELP PLEASE!!! % Barnaby Ng % Toronto, Canada % barnaby.ng@canrem.com