From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 18:01:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA17554 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 18:01:19 -0800 Received: from argon.chem.ucla.edu (argon.chem.ucla.edu [128.97.35.240]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA17538 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 18:01:11 -0800 From: barkovich@uclac1.chem.ucla.edu Received: from UCLAC1 (uclac1.chem.ucla.edu) by argon.chem.ucla.edu (Sendmail 4.1/1.08) id AA18869; Sun, 5 Mar 95 17:51:13 PST Message-Id: <9503060151.AA18869@argon.chem.ucla.edu> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 17:52:21 -0800 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: installation X-Vms-To: SMTP%"questions@FreeBSD.org" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am having trouble with the installation of FreeBSD 2.0 for Intel-based PCs. When the installation menu comes up, bindist installs fine and then nothing else will install. I have been able to get manpages to install once. Whenever I try to install XFree86, the system shows the message "verifying checksums...etc...." but never gets to "extracting files". After it checks the checksums the CDROM lights just go off and the system dies and I can't get back except for ctrl-backslash. When I check the kernel messages again, the following lines have been added: "scsi timeout -- Wait_for_Req--pas.c:891" "cd0(pas0:1:0):unit attention" The only way to get the CD-ROM to respond again is a cold boot. Not even DOS will recognize the CD-ROM without a cold boot. This kind of problem seems to be due to FreeBSD since it never happened to me before. If you can give me any suggestions for installation of packages or XFree86 with- out manual installation, it would be appreciated. Thank you.. barkovich@uclach.chem.ucla.edu