From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 23 23:20:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA04215 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 23:20:20 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA04205 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 23:20:13 -0700 Received: by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.15) via UUCP id AA12350 ; Mon, 24 Jul 95 02:20:12 -0400 Received: (from jan@localhost) by bagend.atl.ga.us (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA03093; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 02:16:01 -0400 From: Jan Isley Message-Id: <199507240616.CAA03093@bagend.atl.ga.us> Subject: Re: Installation Problems To: ts@rio.muc.de (Thomas Schreiber) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 02:16:01 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: from "Thomas Schreiber" at Jul 20, 95 09:55:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3085 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am sending this back the questions list in full ... where someone with better ideas may see it. They will probably ask more particulars about your mother board, brand, chipset, cache, etc. Have you tried disabling the cache during the install? Thomas Schreiber wrote: > Thanks for the help. But the problem still remains. > > >In article <9507181317002015@rio.muc.de>, > >Thomas Schreiber wrote: > > > >>1. Installing directly from CD: =7FBoot-Programm (called from > >>INSTALL.BAT) stops with emm386-Error. > > > >Try running dos's memmaker (read the manual first:) and see if that > >fixes this problem. > > OK, for now I just disabled emm386 and some TSRs. Problem 1 solved. > > >>2. Booting from BOOT-Floppy: Booting OK. After going through the > >>necessary steps of preparation (creating and labeling disk sclices > >>and so on) installation starts but produces lots of "invalid > >>header:checksum error" (cpio) and "invalid compressed data--crc error" > >>(gunzip) messages. (shown on the ALT-F2-Screen, seem to come from cpio > >>and gunzip). > >>After finishing of "installation" of the bin-Directory, > >>installation-dialog informs that it could not install and asks for > >>repetition. The same happens for all the other directories. > > > >Bad floppy? Bad CD? Less than compatible soundblaster card? > > Took away soundblaster comp. card and created new boot floppy > ->same problem! > Tested the CD in several ways. CD is OK. > > >>3. Assumed that there is some problem with the CDROM-Device/Hardware. > >>So I copied the bin-Dist from CDROM to harddisk into D:FREEBSD. > > > >The files need to be in subdirectories under d:\freebsd, like > > > >d:\freebsd\bin > >d:\freebsd\floppies > > That is exactly what I've done. Verified it, tried again. > -> same problem > > >>Whats going wrong? > > > >>My System: Pentium 50/75 PCI, Adaptec 2940, 8MB Ram, 520 MB Syquest > >>IDE HD, 1024 IBM SCSI HD, Goldstar SCSI CDROM drive, NE2000 compat. > >>Ethernet card, Soundblaster comp. card. Plus: Dialogic D41E/Fax40 > >>board installed. > > > >Soundblaster compatible cards may not be so compatible under other > >than DOS. It could be a thousand different things. If all else > >fails, the install from a dos partition should go better once you > >get the files in subdirectories. You need at least bin and floppies > >to test this. > > Also tried it without the Dialogic board. No success. > > At some stage of the "installation process" (when on screen ALT-F2 > those checksum errors appeared) I was able to enter a shell with > ALT-F4. There I was able to cat all the bin.* chunks together, gunzip > them and extract the content with tar. Without any errors - as it should > be (Nevertheless, after that I was not able to boot. Probably because > other installation steps are missing. But my Unix Sysadmin knowledge > is very limited and so I'm not able to help myself any further) > > Doesn't that show that the CD is OK, the CD-device is correctly accessible > by FreeBSD and that there are no hardware conflicts? > > Any more ideas?