From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 11:31:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.cdrom.com (pike.cdrom.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C48E154A2 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:31:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from support@cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by pike.cdrom.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA21864 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:32:38 -0800 (PST) X-Received: from mtiwmhc06.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc06.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.41]) by pike.cdrom.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA11122 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:12:34 -0800 (PST) X-Received: from keith ([12.74.0.11]) by mtiwmhc06.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990310201006.ILLL18958@keith> for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:10:06 +0000 Message-ID: <36E6DF89.D5AB960B@worldnet.att.net> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:09:29 -0800 From: Keith Hall Reply-To: rrr.keith@worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: support@cdrom.com Subject: installing problems X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi nameless person I was told to e-mail someone in support....I have FreeBSD and have tried to install it three times (unsuccessful ), the book is of no help in solving the problem... I have looked on several sites on the net and have not gotten my answers but have been impressed at the clarity and understandablity... My computer is a laptop....I know it could cause problems... my problem is when I boot it loads and there is the choice screen. I choose novice and I choose ALL in the packages choices. My mouse works, I don't have a problem with login ... I DO have a problem looking at the cdrom, I can't load other (third party) packages. When I loaded originally there are about 30 -40 files (???) that were said to be necessary that either aborted or were not found by the install program... Some for instance were ghostscript 5.10 , 4.03 , texTeX-0.4 , XFree86-3.3.2 , and the list goes on... I loaded from a cd and my drive has worked in the auto roll, it is Toshiba , I cannot cat or ls the cdrom... I'm stuck and need help.... I have a 800-453-3498... if it would be easier to talk please do so, I have the problem and don't mind paying the bill.... Is there a posiablilty the cd could be bad.... Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message