Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:00:30 -0400 (EDT) From: cwass99@rogers.com To: Paul Lambert <eb30750@HotPOP.com> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: more on Problem Report i386/39574 Message-ID: <XFMail.20030813180030.cwass99@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030812210314.00b49700@pop.hotpop.com>
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Hi Paul,
I don't know if this is any help at all or not, but I initially had the
same problem with 5.1. I think it was a problem with the CD, as when I burned a
new one, everything worked fine. I suspect in my case, the reader is getting a
little dirty and flakey, it certainly is old enough.
I agree the other issues you point out (congratulations...) need to be
addressed.
Cheers,
Colin
On 13-Aug-2003 Paul Lambert wrote:
> I have obtained version 5.1 of FreeBSD and attempted to install it. Still
> get the same errors though not as much detail is given. The error reads
> "unable to transfer .... from ufs" where ... represents the specific
> distribution such as /manpages, /dist, etc.
>
> When performing a mount command while in the "fixit" shell I get /dev/acd0
> on /dist (cd9660, local, read-only). Previous documentation always
> referred to the CDROM drive as /dev/cd0c, especially in the FreeBSD
> handbook. Is our problem a typo?
>
> I have reviewed the first several chapters of the publication "FreeBSD" by
> Walnut Creek that I obtained when version 4.4 was released. Between
> reading the www.freebsd.org web and this publication it is not totally
> clear if I still need a floppy boot disk. Maybe this is the problem. The
> book seems to imply that although a CDROM is available that sysinstall must
> run from the floppy.
>
> Of course, this is further complicated since the file "boot.flp" on the
> floppies directory is 2.8 meg much larger than a floppy can hold. Which of
> course contradicts the web page instructions on using "fdimage" to make a
> boot floppy in the first place.
>
> If there is a quick fix to this, send it along to
> "lambert_paul_j@lilly.com" and I will replace the files and burn a new CD
> and let you know. Otherwise it appears that this problem will linger
> indefinitely.
>
> There are other significant errors with the 5.1 install that weren't there
> in 5.0. For example, after I click "no" to the 15 or so transfer errors,
> the system goes ahead and congratulates me on a successful install and asks
> if I want to configure networking,user accounts, etc. even though no
> software has been installed. In version 5.0 at least the install program
> detected a bad install and terminated the post install configuration. It
> also appears in 5.1 that it cycles 2-3 times through the transfer errors
> before giving up.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
>
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