Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:21:25 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: mike.nix@amd.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 2.1.5 installation Message-ID: <199609180351.NAA05377@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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In article <323EDD75.216E@amd.com> you wrote: : Hello, Gday! : I just bought a new PC system on which I am trying to install : FreeBSD 2.1.5. I have a 486 system with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI : adapter, two disk-drives and a CD_ROM drive. The "C" is is 2.1G : for DOS. The other drive is 1.2G for FreeBSD. The CD-ROM : drive is a Plexar-4x. Neat stuff.. So thats a SCSI CD-ROM : I am performing the install after booting the machine from a : boot-floppy. The disk-partitioning, disk-labeling, and : distribution-selection goes just fine. But, when data is being : copied from the CD-ROM to the hard-drive, I get some error : messages of the form: Trouble extracting /bin from cd0a. Do you : want to try again? I get a number of the maeesages, and the : installation fails. Groan.. Don't ya love computers :) : I have no problems with the CD-ROM drive for other applications. : Is it possible that the Walnut-Creek CD-ROM is defective? : Could my hard-drive have a problem? Or the most likely case: : Operator error. What am I doing wrong? When the install is occuring you can hit [alt-f2] to go to the "debug" screen, and [alt-f1] to get back. Doing this will let you "see" the exact errors that are occuring. If you are still having grief you could install from you MSDOS disk. There are instructions in the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/ but basically you just copy a big stack of files from the cdrom to your dos disk in c:\freebsd and then run from there. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!
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