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From: "Bromberger, Seth" <Seth.Bromberger@PEPSICO.sprint.com>
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Subject: Problems w/ install: FIPS, DOS, CDROM...
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I've been unsuccessful at getting 2.1 to install on my machine.  Here's the 
setup:

IDE master: 1.0GB Seagate.  2 partitions: DOS primary on 1st half and fbsd 
on 2nd half.
IDE slave: Hitachi 4x ATAPI cd-rom.

The atapi.flp disk recognizes the cdrom: it spits out the following 2 lines 
on boot:

wcd0: Hitachi atapi (something or other) 657MB (more junk)
wcd0: medium type unknown, unlocked

the install doesn't see the CDROM as a valid distribution medium.

Next try:  install off a DOS partition.  So I mkdir c:\freebsd and put the 
floppies and the bin subdirs in there.  Go to install, and select DOS 
partition as medium.  No problems there, but when I commit changes, it goes 
through and installs a bunch of the bin stuff and then kicks back, giving an 
error like "gunzip: crc error".  This kills the pipe to cpio or whatever was 
doing the installing, and the install fails.  From DOS, I checked the 
integrity of the bin fines.  gzip -t gives no errors.

BTW: Walnut Creek has either apparently had some calls about this already or 
hires psychics;  the guy who answered the phone knew the problem before I 
told him what it was.  No solution, since they've not been able to reproduce 
it.

Final try: install the bindist from 15 floppies (ugh), boot, mount the 
primary DOS partition, and run sysinstall using "existing filesystem" as a 
medium to try to get the manpages.  Talk about messy.  Mounting returns some 
warning like "root fs not at cylinder 0".  The fs mounts anyway.  Any access 
to that mounted fs results in system instability (shared libs failing, 
permission denied [even as root] for commands like cp) and ultimately a 
crash.

Here's the catch: I used FIPS to partition my HD.  Could this be the 
culprit?

I'd like to accomplish one (or both!) of the following things:

1) get FreeBSD installed using either my CD-ROM or the DOS partition.
2) be able to mount my DOS primary filesystem.

I don't have any additional hardware that I can use, and I can't trash the 
DOS partition, as some people around here still like windows (this is an 
attempt to show them the value of UNIX, and it's failing...).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Seth Bromberger
seth@interport.net