Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:57:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D." <barnes@biodec.wustl.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, JBarnes@CCO.caltech.edu Subject: Re: travails Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960913225518.615Y-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <54904.barnes@biodec.wustl.edu>
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On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D. wrote: > Dear FreeBSDers, > > System: Dell Dimension P100t (pentium 100) > 8 + 32 = 40 Meg RAM > EIDE controller > 1.6 Gig WD drive jumpered as master. > 4X NEC IDE CD Rom jumpered as slave. > BootEasy boot manager is working. > 400 MB DOS 6.22 partition > ~447 MB FreeBSD partition > 32 MB root / > 32 MB swap > 58 MB /spare > 30 MB /var > ~297 MB /usr > rest of drive is extended DOS partition, D: and E: > CD rom drive works fine as dos drive F: > > BIG PROBLEM -- Can someone at least tell me whether this is hardware or > software, and which piece is broken? > > Boot: Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 > Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 > Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 > ... endlessly repeating Busted floppy. Try with a new, error-free flopy. Try making the disk under DOS. > I was able to seemingly install FreeBSD over FTP, after booting > unix from the View program and Install.bat on the F: CD rom. Thus, I > was running unix on my system for quite awhile. > > In fact, I was running (and booting) FreeBSD on this computer for > a few weeks, when I decided I needed a larger FreeBSD partition. This > first installation of FreeBSD installed with a boot floppy and FTP. It > was before I rejumpered my drives, and it never could see my CD. > > The above error occurs before and after rejumpering. Busted floppy. Make sure your CD is jumpered the slave on the primary controller -- that is the 'hot spot' for finding the CD. You may try other configs if that doesn't work, it appears to depend on the machine. > I am almost, but not quite able to install from the CDrom. It > boots OK, and I go through the installation screens ok, but when it is > actually copying over the bin system, it s l o w s d o w n at about > chunk 20, getting slower and slower, and finally making write errors > and the installation fails. This happened twice. This did not happen > with the FTP install. I don't know about that one. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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