Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:02:40 +0200 From: Soso Lolex <sosobsd@email.ro> To: Richard Wenninger <wenninger@cox-internet.com> Cc: questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re: : Re: FreeBSD 4.5 instalation failure Message-ID: <200202071702.g17H2ev27312@zerg.codec.ro>
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> On Thursday 07 February 2002 08:51 am, you wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Soso Lolex wrote: > > > > okay, here are more deails: > > > > > > > > I have one disk (Western digital 6.4 Gb) on which i had before > > > > installed FreeBSD 4.5 , 256Mb memory, Duron 700 Mhz; So, when I > > > > tried to install FreeBSD 4.5 I had one DOS partition (FAT32/Win2k) > > > > and I also created a BSD partition 2.8 Gb (/), and a swap > > > > partition of about 150 Mb. It is not possible to run out of disk > > > > space because after some failed installations I choose to instal > > > > only "user" packages, without development packages or X packages, > > > > and the installation process still failed the same. > > > > > > > > So, I personally give up, I simply dont see what is wrong. > > > > > > Nah, don't give up so easily :) > > > > > > What is the *exact* error message you're seeing? > > > > > > - Giorgos > > > > Hmm, I dont remember the *exact* error message but I know that was related > > with /bin directory, something like it cannot copy or install /bin from CD > > (or hardisk if I tried to install it from DOS partition) and the error > > message came up when progress bar was at 100%, and all other directories > > were installed well. > > > > It is possibly that my image is broken... > > > > Thanx anyway, > > > > soso > > I had a similiar problem, and it turned out to be a poor quality CD-ROM drive > having trouble reading my CDR. I swapped out the CD-ROM drive, and the > install went just fine. > nah, in my case the image was broken, I have generated md5 hashes for the files on the CD, and compare it with the original ones, and at least 2 files from /bin directory from the first CD were corrupted soso ______________________________________________________________________ Do you want a free e-mail for life ? Get it at http://www.email.ro/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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