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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:39:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   3.1 install probs, bad mem?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904052030310.12962-100000@sonic.digital-web.net>

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	I've got a machine that I'm trying to install 3.1-RELEASE from CD
on to.  I'm running into some problems.

Hardware :
PII, 64 MD Ram, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card, Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM, IBM 8gig
SCSI HD

While it's installing from the cd I'm getting a kernel panic,
unfortunately it reboots before I get much of a chance to write it down.

However during the install (before it's paniced) I get several messages
like this :

/stand/cpio: :No such file or directory
/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
/stand/cpio: warning: skipped xxxxx bytes of junk

where the xxxxx is some number.  I'll get tons of these and then it will
eventually panic.  I also had the following error:

Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes)

So my guess is that it's bad memory.  I thought I would post this first to
see if there was any imput on some other things that I should look at.
Some other things that I think might be able to create problems like this
may be the cd rom drive or the scsi adapter.  Although I really lean
towards the memory.  This is a brand new system from one of the local
shops.


Joseph Scott
joseph@randomnetworks.com




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