Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 21:57:40 -0700 From: jwalker <j.c.walker@worldnet.att.net> To: support@cdrom.com Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <34386FC4.57BC@worldnet.att.net> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971006104318.7185M@pooh.cdrom.com>
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Gentlemen: I am requesting support on installing the FreeBSD distribution from the CD media. I have spent untold hours over the last few weeks and nearing the end of my patience. I purchased my first copy from MicroCenter in Houston and have since requested and received an additional copy of the CD from Walnut Creek. This is a list of the problems I am having when I attempt to install the product: During the course of the install while copying the files from the CD onto the hard drive, I get screens full of the error: /stand/cpio: invalid header warning skipped XXXX bytes of junk no such file or directory Other times I get the message: mcd0 timeout read data retrying The errors finally terminate with: gunzip: stdin - invalid compressed data -- format violated /stand/cpio: premature end of file The last error even occurs on files that have previously been copied down to the hard drive. As I stated previously, I am nearly the end of my patience and time. In a fit of rage, I broke original CD I purchased after I got that copy mixed up with the replacement copy. (At the time I believed the problem was related to bad media.) I now believe the problem is independent of the different CDs. I am installing the FreeBSD onto a Western Digital Caviar 2540 hard drive (515 MB) with a 20 MB DOS partition at the begining of the drive. I have attempted to use the entire disk to no avail. I am installing from a Mitsumi 2X CD player on IRQ 9, Address 340. I have a 486-66 Intel CPU, NEC 1.44 floppy, and 24 MB RAM. I am using a standard VGA monitor with a Trident VGA card. No network, no audio, just a plain jane independent install. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am not tied to installing this FreeBSD, I just need a Unix machine. Are the various incarnations of Linux any easier to install? Maybe I should be trying the Red Hat or Slackware Linux systems instead of this stuff. Thanks in advance for your assistance, Jay Walker j.c.walker@worldnet.att.net
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