Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:22:04 -0500 From: Paul Lambert <eb30750@HotPOP.com> To: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: more on Problem Report i386/39574 Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030812210314.00b49700@pop.hotpop.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I have obtained version 5.1 of FreeBSD and attempted to install it. Still get the same errors though not as much detail is given. The error reads "unable to transfer .... from ufs" where ... represents the specific distribution such as /manpages, /dist, etc. When performing a mount command while in the "fixit" shell I get /dev/acd0 on /dist (cd9660, local, read-only). Previous documentation always referred to the CDROM drive as /dev/cd0c, especially in the FreeBSD handbook. Is our problem a typo? I have reviewed the first several chapters of the publication "FreeBSD" by Walnut Creek that I obtained when version 4.4 was released. Between reading the www.freebsd.org web and this publication it is not totally clear if I still need a floppy boot disk. Maybe this is the problem. The book seems to imply that although a CDROM is available that sysinstall must run from the floppy. Of course, this is further complicated since the file "boot.flp" on the floppies directory is 2.8 meg much larger than a floppy can hold. Which of course contradicts the web page instructions on using "fdimage" to make a boot floppy in the first place. If there is a quick fix to this, send it along to "lambert_paul_j@lilly.com" and I will replace the files and burn a new CD and let you know. Otherwise it appears that this problem will linger indefinitely. There are other significant errors with the 5.1 install that weren't there in 5.0. For example, after I click "no" to the 15 or so transfer errors, the system goes ahead and congratulates me on a successful install and asks if I want to configure networking,user accounts, etc. even though no software has been installed. In version 5.0 at least the install program detected a bad install and terminated the post install configuration. It also appears in 5.1 that it cycles 2-3 times through the transfer errors before giving up. Thanks Paul
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.2.0.9.0.20030812210314.00b49700>