From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 10:16:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B1E37BB9B for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.89.31]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000609171553.GUIM290.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 18:15:53 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00844; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 18:15:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 18:15:48 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Tony Balazs Cc: "'FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Problems installing XFree86 Message-ID: <20000609181548.A233@parish> References: <01BFD230.15BE00E0@pc20> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <01BFD230.15BE00E0@pc20>; from tony@rothstein.co.uk on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:30:49PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:30:49PM +0100, Tony Balazs wrote: > During my attempted installation of Xfree86 from CD I'm getting the following message: > > acd0: READ_BIG - MEDIUM ERROR asc = 1 ascq = 05 error = 00 > > Does this mean that the CD is damaged? > Dunno. > Also, during the installation I have weird characters around the box showing "Extracting ... into /usr directory... > (lots of 3's A's, a "U" and an upturned ?). > Don't worry. It's just the font/charset you are using in the console. Those chars are supposed to be the ASCII line drawing characters, you know, the ones DOS progs used to draw boxes around text and pop-ups. I see the same thing using the iso-thin-8x16 font. > So 2 questions: is my CD damaged and what do the weird characters signify? > > Thanks for any help. > > Tony > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message