Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 15:05:17 -0400 From: PCAKen@aol.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: failed installation problems... Message-ID: <960802150517_590983154@emout10.mail.aol.com>
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Hi there ! I am in trouble, and in need of some technical help. I have just purchased a P-166 system with 32 megs RAM, 4 gig Seagate Barracuda Hard drive, an NEC 6X CD-ROM (:502) , an Adaptec 2940W controller card, Wang DAT backup tape,Warning : Message rejected by targer and a 3COM Etherlink III network card. I partitioned the hard drive to use the full disk for FreeBSD, and then went on thru with the complete installation of the O/S. Everything looked good with the install, but when I re-booted the system, all I get is the "F?" . I managed to make a boot floppy using another machine, and cam get the system to boot with that and it automatically goes back into the install mode. The trouble is, I can't get the system to recognize the CD-ROM. When the system boots, the script on the screen finds all of the hardware on the system, but I get the message "Warning : Message rejected by target: 0x1". This message comes up after it tries to initialize the Wang DAT and the hard drive. The *REAL* trouble is that I can not access my CD-ROM. The CDROM is connected to the ADAPTEC 2940W controller card, and it's ID # is 6. When I am booting the system, After the CDROM comes up on the screen, I get a long delay, then I get the message: (ahcd0:6:0) cdrom can't get the size TFS is 1000KByte compiled in MFS And then the install screen appears. When I try to load the software from the CDROM while in the install mode, it tells me that there is no CDROM connected to the system. I have tried installing a minimal setup from floppies, but this always fails too... I'M DESPARATE ! The telephone company is outside right now connecting my 25 pairs of telephone lines and my 56K line, and I'm out of business until I get this figured out. Please reply ASAP and let me know if you can help me or if there is anyone I can contact VIA telephone that may be able to help me. I'm willing to pay a reasonable ammount for the service ! Thanks in advance ! Ken Hodges Owner Acme BrainWorks http://www.acme-brain.com (as soon as this gets repaired) PCA Ken@aol.com 1-706-746-3062
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