From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 9:27:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FF737B41B for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:27:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1cust222.tnt1.petersburg.va.da.uu.net ([67.201.150.222] helo=earthlink.net) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16YsKN-0001Vn-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:27:19 -0800 Message-ID: <41200224716357400@earthlink.net> X-EM-Version: 5, 0, 0, 0 X-EM-Registration: #3003520714B31D032830 X-Priority: Reply-To: robnmac@earthlink.net X-Mailer: EarthLink MailBox 5.0.6.8 (Windows) From: "Carl Briggs" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation Problems... Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:33:57 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let me first start by telling you what equipment I have. I am running a 200 Pentium with MMX ( the BIOS date leads me to beleive it is from 1997 ), I have two CD-ROMS, one is the old ATAPI Mitsumi that came with this machine and the other is an ATAPI Generic ( I guess, it doesn't have a name anywhere on it ) 40X, I have a new Western Digital 20 Gig hard drive, and 160 megs of RAM. Now let me tell you what is happening with my install. Everything seems to work great until I pick the Distribution and choose CD-ROM install. After I choose CD-ROM install it asks if you are sure you want to proceed. It works for about 1 minute and then bunks up. I did what the book said and hit ALT-F2 to see /dev/ttyv1 and it goes well until it gets to /stand/cpio. When it gets there it says the following messages over and over for 2 to 3 minutes before it fails: 1) Invalid header 2) No file found or something and 3) Skipping (whatever the byte amount) bytes of junk. And then finally after sysinstall gets to around 40% of the bin distribution it sends an error message to the screen, it says WRITE FAILURE! wrote -1 of (whatever) bytes. What does this mean? Is something wrong with my hardware or the way the BIOS is set up. Please get back with me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message