From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Mar 20 15:06:40 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA12624 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 15:06:40 -0800 Received: from gatekeeper.mcimail.com (gatekeeper.mcimail.com [192.147.45.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA12540 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 15:04:50 -0800 Received: by gatekeeper.mcimail.com (5.65/fma-120691); id AA09389; Mon, 20 Mar 95 23:09:17 GMT Received: from mcimail.com by mailgate.mcimail.com id bi01601; 20 Mar 95 19:49 WET Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 13:08 EST From: Mitchell Ackerman <0006619934@mcimail.com> To: FreeBSD support Subject: CDROM installation problems Message-Id: <75950320180857/0006619934PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 getting 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 thus 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.