Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:15:15 -0400 From: nawcom <nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com> To: egf@RiskProof.hn.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install from CD-R fails Message-ID: <42F7A133.6000804@nawcom.no-ip.com> In-Reply-To: <20050808101722.A28535@oxymoron.egf-net> References: <20050808101722.A28535@oxymoron.egf-net>
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have you checked out the debug during the installation. i really cant help until we find out the reason why its not picking up the scsi cd-r. i think its Alt-F2 to view the debug screen. check that out and report the errors. -Ben egf@RiskProof.hn.org wrote: >I am unsuccessful installing FreeBSD 5.3 on an Intel x86 >box which has only SCSI peripherals. > >If I insert Installation CD #1 into the CD-Writer drive, >it boots up successfully into the install program. The drive >is a PLEXTOR CD-R PX-R412C. It proceeds OK down to the >screen titled "Choose Installation Media". If I select item: > > 1. CD/DVD Install from a FreeBSD CD/DVD > >and then press <CR> it just repeats the dialog, and refuses >to find the installation images on the very same CD that >it just booted from in the first place?! And, there is >no other device choice given which is applicable here. > >I even went so far as to retry an install from FreeBSD 5.2.1 >CDs which I had previously installed onto an ATA-based box. >It failed in exactly the same place with the same error. >What gives here? > >This system has all SCSI peripherals: the controller is a >Tekram PCI board model DC-390F with Symbios 53C875 chip, >3 HDDs and the Plextor CD-R. > >This same box was previously been running RedHat Fedora Core 1 >for over a year with the same h/w config. Now, I wish to convert >this into a FreeBSD firewall system running PF. > >thanks, > >ed > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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