Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:05:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Stephen J. Hartley" <shartley@mcs.drexel.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919220451.280Y-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199709200222.WAA13031@bandersnatch.mcs.drexel.edu>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Stephen J. Hartley wrote: > I just received the FreeBSD 2.2.2 CD-ROM set and tried to install > FreeBSD on my generic PC. I tried to install from the CD-ROM using a > boot floppy disk created from the FreeBSD.org Web site with the command > fdimage boot.flp > Everything seemed normal until I said install everything for an X-user. > The next thing I saw was a message to the effect "installation completed > with some errors". I checked the other virtual screen and scrolled through > the output. I saw a bunch of hardware probing until something like > reading from CD-ROM > but nothing after that. > What I suspect is that the kernel could not read the CD-ROM drive to > complete the installation. My machine has an IDE controller. The hard > drive is the master on number one (primary interface) and the CD-ROM is a > slave on the second (secondary interface). It might also be ATAPI. As > you can tell, I am a novice when it comes to describing PC hardware. I don't know what to say, the information you gave me doesn't identify a specific error point. You didn't see any references to any specific missing files, did you? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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