From owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 19:22:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B217F37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from twix.hotpop.com (twix.hotpop.com [204.57.55.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E527643FBF for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eb30750@HotPOP.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by twix.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8205456D14F for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from CPQ25135281132.HotPOP.com (unknown [68.30.11.90]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB211A0223 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030812210314.00b49700@pop.hotpop.com> X-Sender: eb30750@pop.hotpop.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:22:04 -0500 To: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org From: Paul Lambert Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Subject: more on Problem Report i386/39574 X-BeenThere: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Quality Assurance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:22:26 -0000 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