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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:05:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Stephen J. Hartley" <shartley@mcs.drexel.edu>
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Subject: Re: installation help
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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? 

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