From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 21:27:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFF216A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:27:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pro5.mtco.com (pro5.mtco.com [207.179.200.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED76D43F85 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkleman@mtco.com) Received: (qmail 3869 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2003 05:27:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mtco.com) (207.179.194.154) by ns.mtco.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2003 05:27:58 -0000 Message-ID: <3FA34453.4080605@mtco.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:27:47 -0600 From: Mike Leman Organization: Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Possible CDROM problems with install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mkleman@mtco.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 05:27:53 -0000 I am trying to install Freebsd 4.8 on a computer and having a great deal of problems. The first time I tried the install stopped when the doc install was at 100% and would not go on. I rebooted and it would boot, but I didn't have much. I tried booting from the CD to finish the install, but that didn't work. I would get a screen screen dump that just kept scrolling. Since I'm putting this on a second hard drive, I wiped everything off the drive and started over. When it was loading the BIN to first directory, I noticed I was getting a lot of "/stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error" messages. Then on the window with progress bar, I got a message "write failure on transfer". I acknowledged the error and received a message asking to try again yes/no. After retrying and failing a number of times, I selected no and the docs installed OK. After this every part of the install had the write failure until I stopped the install. On monitoring side, there were invalid header errors and other errors also. In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FREEBSD", he notes can be problems with ATAPI CD-ROMs. I have a Acer 36X CDROM that reports "ATAPI 36X MAXIMUM" when the computer boots. Could there be problem with the CDROM drive? Is there something I do for this? Or do I have a bad install CD? I just purchased the intall CDs. Also the Hard drive in fairly new. I bought it and installed six months ago, but have not used till now. Any help you can give will be appreciated. Thanks, Mike