Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:42:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: tony cappellini <newshirt@best.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD 2.2.5 install problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330004054.23543H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803261547.HAA08437@proxy3.ba.best.com>
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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 Known bug; setup.exe is out of date.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
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