From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 17:12:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A21937C119 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:12:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA56076; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:42:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:42:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "A. Stanhope" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Install failure (was: FreeBSD 4.0 Install from CDROM) Message-ID: <20000728094219.A45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000727163744.IFAA9731.mail2.rdc2.bc.home.com@cs310339-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i 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 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message