Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 13:36:38 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Mitchell Ackerman <0006619934@mcimail.com> Cc: bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: CDROM installation problems Message-ID: <6974.795735398@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 95 13:09:00 EST." <11950320180911/0006619934PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
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There are 3 versions of the FreeBSD CDROM (from 2 different manufacturers). You'll have to give us just a LITTLE more detail! :-) Jordan > I have just got through installing FreeBSD on my PC. I encountered some > problems, on of the worst with the CDROM. It keeps on giving me checksum > errors, but if I retry it sometimes it will work. Additionally I keep gettin g > timeout messages, at which point it retries automatically, and so far it has > always managed to finish what it is doing (e.g., installing something). > > Is there anything to be done about these checksum & timeout errors? I am > running on a Comtrade 486DX2/66, with a DTC3290ASE (i think) EISA SCSI > controller. The CDROM is a mitsumi FX001 using the mitsumi interface card > (non-scsi). > > One related problem that I had was that I got a checksum error attempting to > install XWindows, and had to reboot before completing the installation. I th us > had no users defined so could not login and had to reinstall. (I have since > found out that I could have used root to login?). > > Mitchell. > > >
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