From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 14: 5:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6776E37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wasp.eng.ufl.edu (wasp.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B4C43E09 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:05:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@eng.ufl.edu) Received: from eng.ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by wasp.eng.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08460; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:05:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D2CA199.B68C287C@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:05:29 -0400 From: Bob Johnson Reply-To: bob89@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu Organization: University of Florida, College of Engineering X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, eo MIME-Version: 1.0 To: db@traceroute.dk, ant@overclockers.at Cc: questions@freebsd.org, nirv199@yahoo.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:07:03 +0200 > From: "Daniel Blankensteiner" > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 install > > - ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andreas Ntaflos" > > > I have a computer with FreeBSD 4.5-Stable and windows xp. Now I want to > make > > > a clean FreeBSD 4.6-Release install, meaning that I don't update > 4.5-stable, > > > but install via FreeBSD-4.6-mini.iso (a bootable cd-rom). I have already > > > used this cd to install FreeBSD on another computer. > > > Here is the problem: After it ask where the cd-rom, it says: > > > Extracting bin into / directory.... > > > 0% > > > Page fault > > > Syncing disks 33 33 33 (and so on).... > > FreeBSD 4.6 Release has a known problem with some CD drives. See the errata: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/errata.html Note that sometimes it causes a panic, other times it simply causes error messages. Try the workaround in the errata and see if it helps. As I understand it, the 4.6.1 Release is intended to fix the problem so that I and others ;) will be able to do an install from CD. It will be out soon, I hope. > [...] - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message