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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:42:19 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "A. Stanhope" <asas@home.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Install failure (was: FreeBSD 4.0 Install from CDROM)
Message-ID:  <20000728094219.A45715@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000727163744.IFAA9731.mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com@cs310339-a>; from asas@home.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:33:20AM -0700
References:  <20000727163744.IFAA9731.mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com@cs310339-a>

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On Thursday, 27 July 2000 at  9:33:20 -0700, A. Stanhope wrote:
> I am encountering a problem while installing Freebsd 4.0
> via cdrom. The install goes fine, up until the point where it's
> about to install the files from the CD, this happens rather
> quickly, and I get the message:
> "Install completed but with some errors".
>
> It doesn't install any files at all. The last thing in DEBUG is:
> DEBUG: Creating /etc/fstab file

You should get another message before the "completed but with some
errors" message.  Do you?

> Here are the machine's details.
> Machine is a dual PII 400, with 5 - 6.4 gig SCSI drives in RAID 5
> array configuration, totalling about 35 gigs.
> SCSI Card is a DPT SmartCACHE IV (supported)
>
> I've tried the install many times, always getting the same error
> with the install. I've tried making my own slices, and also allowing
> the install the make it's own (default), with the same problem.
>
> NOTE: Install of FreeBSD 3.2 from our old CD installs fine
>            on same machine.

Hmm.  That's unusual.  Can you try installing 3.2 and then upgrading
from source?

Greg
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