Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:33:12 -0500 From: "Bromberger, Seth" <Seth.Bromberger@PEPSICO.sprint.com> To: "'freebsd questions mailing list'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Problems w/ install: FIPS, DOS, CDROM... Message-ID: <0026FEB8.MAI*/G=Seth/S=Bromberger/PRMD=PEPSICO/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@MHS>
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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
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