From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 00:42:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26550 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:42:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26533 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:42:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA23957; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:42:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:42:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: tony cappellini cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD 2.2.5 install problems In-Reply-To: <199803261547.HAA08437@proxy3.ba.best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, tony cappellini wrote: > Hi > > > > I'm using a Adaptec 2940UW, and 2 Seagate 2.1GB SCSI drives, Pentium 100, 64MB > ram. > (booting from the Cdrom is enabled in the 2940 bios) > > 1rst Try > When I try booting 2.25 from my SCSI CDRom I get the following messages > > "A bootable CDrom is detected in your CDrom drive" > "The boot sections on your bootable CDrom are :0. Default Entry" > "Your cdrom drive is inserted as Drive A: (0h). The original drive A" has > become drive b:" > > Then the system sits there indefinitely. That is odd, it must come from either the Adaptec BIOS or your system's BIOS. > 2nd try > So I tried booting to the HD, then running install forn the Cdrom. This works > well, until I get to the "Select Distribution Medium" section of Lehey's book > "The Complete Free BSD" (2nd edition), then when I select CDRom, it tells > me no > Cdroms were found. Check the boot messages and see if your CD is being probed. Hit Scroll-lock then use the arrow keys to scroll back. Check the ahc device probe. > 3rd try > Then I tried copying the CDrom to a dos partition, using the setup.exe program > (which was described in the sysinstall documentation), and after a few seconds > of CDrom and HD activity, an error message is displayed "x32bin.tgz" is > missing, and the copying aborts. Known bug; setup.exe is out of date. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message