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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:16:01 -0400
From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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To: "OCEANS Ltd." <oceans@nfld.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD fails to Install
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OCEANS Ltd. wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
>         I have recently purchased a copy of FreeBSD 2.1 and I am having quite
>         a bit of trouble installing the OS.  I have a 486 SLC2 IBM motherboard
>         with 16MB of RAM and an IDE hard drive and CDROM drive.
> 
>         I have tried each of the installation methods described in the handbook,
>         except for the network install, and each has failed.  For both the DOS
>         install and DOS IDE procedures I was able to get through the initial
>         setup process of selecting the hardware and file systems but the install
>         failed, when I selected CDROM as source, with an error message saying that
>         I have to "assign disk labels before proceeding".
> 
>         As I did not expect the install to work properly because of the IDE CDROM
>         I next created the boot floppy for installing to an IDE CDROM.  This
>         procedure did not get as far as either of the other two.  When the system
>         tried to boot from the floppy it failed with the following error message
>         repeating until the system was rebooted:
> 
>                     error: C:61 H:0 S:14
> 

Failed disk, Created by W95 dos 7??? If yes, use a real dos version.

-Enjoy
Gary
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