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Subject: Installation Problems
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From: Thomas Schreiber <ts@rio.muc.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:17:00 -0200
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Tried several ways to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 from Walnut Creek CD -
without success:

1. Installing directly from CD: Boot-Programm (called from 
INSTALL.BAT) stops with emm386-Error.

2. Booting from BOOT-Floppy: Booting OK. After going through the 
necessary steps of preparation (creating and labeling disk sclices
and so on) installation starts but produces lots of "invalid 
header:checksum error" (cpio) and "invalid compressed data--crc error" 
(gunzip) messages. (shown on the ALT-F2-Screen, seem to come from cpio 
and gunzip).
After finishing of "installation" of the bin-Directory, 
installation-dialog informs that it could not install and asks for 
repetition. The same happens for all the other directories.

3. Assumed that there is some problem with the CDROM-Device/Hardware.
So I copied the bin-Dist from CDROM to harddisk into D:FREEBSD. Same 
for the Floppy-Images as shown in Installation Guide.
Now trying to install from DOS-Partition: Same preparation as above. 
Then starting installation. After making root filesystem etc. install 
tries to copy root floppy image but stops with message
"Couldn't get root image from wd0s1! Will try to get it from floppy". 
Then "Please insert ROOT floppy in floppy drive A and press [ENTER]". 
Done so. Reaction after some time of loading: "Failed to retrieve 
piece bin/bin.aa. Aborting the transfer". 

4. Proceeding according to troubleshooting hint and booting from 
floppy in configure-mode (-c). Disabling all devices that seem to be
not needed. Then trying once again to install from CDROM. But the 
same
problems as in (2) appear.

Whats going wrong?

My System: Pentium 50/75 PCI, Adaptec 2940, 8MB Ram, 520 MB Syquest 
IDE HD, 1024 IBM SCSI HD, Goldstar SCSI CDROM drive, NE2000 compat. 
Ethernet card, Soundblaster comp. card. Plus: Dialogic D41E/Fax40 
board installed.