From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 19:46:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet03.citec.qld.gov.au (inet03.citec.qld.gov.au [203.5.10.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF51E14CFB for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 19:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au) Received: by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au; id NAA22451; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:46:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from guru.citec.qld.gov.au( 147.132.20.47) by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma022281; Fri, 17 Dec 99 13:46:06 +1000 Received: from localhost (sgcccdc@localhost) by guru.citec.qld.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA32224 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:46:13 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: guru.citec.qld.gov.au: sgcccdc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:46:13 +1000 (EST) From: Colin Campbell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install on Seagate SCSI driver In-Reply-To: <199912170326.EAA14604@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I had major problems with a machine when trying to install. It would fail or panic or both. The messages had something to do with uncompressing the data files failing due to bad checksums or something along that line. I also tried Linux and it just panicked. I tried BSDi and it installed but only reported 128MB of memory instead of the 256 in it. Turned out to be bad memory. That's where I'd be looking on your machine. Since the install is so quick, you can try cycling through the memory chips to find the bad one(s) by removing chips and installing, swapping chips, installing, ... until you find the bad one. Colin > Hongxiang Wang wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > I want to install FreeBSD 3.2 Release on my computer which has a Seagate > > ST318275LW 18.2GB SCSI hard disk. The kernel can probe my SCSI controller > > and my SCSI hard disk correctly. But it always complains that "Unable to > > transfer the bin distribution from wcd0c" after it try to "Extract bin into > > / directory". I don't think it because of my CDROM. I tried to install from > > NFS server, but the problem is same as before. Why? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message