Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:06:39 -0400 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Ernie Luzar" <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-11 on i386 Message-ID: <12a08670f70fb398b5aa09cbd3cc4846.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <58FE1CE5.7030900@gmail.com> References: <mailman.102.1492948802.77764.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <95963a8c2b078850f983da664671e6a4.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <58FE1CE5.7030900@gmail.com>
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On Mon, April 24, 2017 11:42, Ernie Luzar wrote:
>
> Symptoms may be caused by bad dvd media or dvd r/w hardware.
> That long pause is a good indicator.
> Recreate your dvd disk using a never before used blank one.
> You could also trying burning the dvd media on different dvd r/w
> hardware.
>
> I have 11.0 installed on a i386 mbr hard drive. I used the cdrom1.iso
> because I don't have dvd r/w hardware.
>
It seems that my difficulties were caused by a dvd drive that
exhibited an intermittent failure on write. I recreated the i386
install dvd using a USB plug in dvd r/w drive and the new media
successfully installed on the target host.
Thanks to all who replied for the help.
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