Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 21:57:40 -0700 From: jwalker <j.c.walker@worldnet.att.net> To: support@cdrom.com Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <34386FC4.57BC@worldnet.att.net> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971006104318.7185M@pooh.cdrom.com>
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Gentlemen:
I am requesting support on installing the FreeBSD distribution from the
CD media. I have spent untold hours over the last few weeks and nearing
the end of my patience. I purchased my first copy from MicroCenter in
Houston and have since requested and received an additional copy of the
CD from Walnut Creek.
This is a list of the problems I am having when I attempt to install the
product:
During the course of the install while copying the files from the CD
onto the hard drive, I get screens full of the error:
/stand/cpio: invalid header
warning skipped XXXX bytes of junk
no such file or directory
Other times I get the message:
mcd0 timeout read data
retrying
The errors finally terminate with:
gunzip: stdin - invalid compressed data -- format violated
/stand/cpio: premature end of file
The last error even occurs on files that have previously been copied
down to the hard drive.
As I stated previously, I am nearly the end of my patience and time. In
a fit of rage, I
broke original CD I purchased after I got that copy mixed up with the
replacement copy. (At
the time I believed the problem was related to bad media.) I now
believe the problem is
independent of the different CDs.
I am installing the FreeBSD onto a Western Digital Caviar 2540 hard
drive (515 MB) with a 20 MB DOS partition at the begining of the drive.
I have attempted to use the entire disk to no avail. I am installing
from a Mitsumi 2X CD player on IRQ 9, Address 340. I have a 486-66
Intel CPU, NEC 1.44 floppy, and 24 MB RAM. I am using a standard VGA
monitor with a Trident VGA card. No network, no audio, just a plain
jane independent install.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am not tied to installing
this FreeBSD, I just need a Unix machine. Are the various incarnations
of Linux any easier to install? Maybe I should be trying the Red Hat or
Slackware Linux systems instead of this stuff.
Thanks in advance for your assistance,
Jay Walker
j.c.walker@worldnet.att.net
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