Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:43:13 +1000 (EST) From: Colin Campbell <sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation problems Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.991001132954.18923A-100000@guru.citec.qld.gov.au>
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Hi, Pentium III 450, BX2000 motherboard, 512MB RAM, Adaptec 2940B UW SCSI (auto termination), 1xIBM 34560D (4.35GB, SCSI-id=1), 1xQuantum Viking II (4.35GB SCSI-id=0, terminated). Trying to install 3.2 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM/Book. It gets to installing the bin dist (from "User" set, default disk partitions) into / and it will then either: Write failure on transfer (write returns -1) (If I try again, it normally panics the machine) or just plain panics (saw a virtual address 0xc once) I have tried without the IBM disk, disabling the CPU secondary cache, disabling cpu internal and secondary cache (boy did that slow it down!). I have even tried installing Red Hat 6.0 (machine panicked) and BSDI 3.1 (no problems at all!) The machine came with BSDI/3.1 on it. Is that significant? Searching the archives showed a thousand people over a thousand years getting the write fails but I only found one reply. That one suggested any or all of: 1) disabling cache (tried that - ran slow then panicked) 2) check SCSI termination (done that) 3) put DOS on then overwrite it (not yet) Or is all this a symptom of the hardware being screwed? Colin -- Colin Campbell Unix Support/Postmaster/Hostmaster CITEC +61 7 3227 7112 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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