From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 6: 3:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com (zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com [47.129.242.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E8537B503 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:03:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com) Received: from zcard015.ca.nortel.com (actually zcard015) by zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:49:49 -0500 Received: by zcard015.ca.nortel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:49:51 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Matthew Koivisto" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Failed bin install using CD *and* Floppies 4.2 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:49:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09FFA.FC608C00" X-Orig: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09FFA.FC608C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" When you created the cd did you burn the .ISO image( ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.2-install.iso ), or did you just create the cd some other way? The easiest way to install I found was with boot floppies and that .ISO cd image. Matt -----Original Message----- From: David Anderson [mailto:DRCAnderson@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 6:34 PM To: questions Subject: Failed bin install using CD *and* Floppies 4.2 Hi Can anyone suggest anything helpful to the 2 following 4.2 bin install problems. (i) With CD (burnt by me) all bin's including bin.inf burnt onto Mitsubishi 650mb/74inch. Nothing else on this one time recordable disk. After choosing CDROM as install media. "Warning: The CD currently in the drive is either not a FreeBSD CD or it is older (pre 2.1.5) FreeBSD CD which does not have a version number on it. Do you want to use this anyway?" I click ok then get ......"Unable to transfer the bin distribution from acd0c." Has anybody else encountered this problem - Can anyone help? (ii) With 25 floppies carefully set up with bins and bin.inf as per install.txt I get 75% of the way and hit "Write failure on transfer! Wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes." Does this indicate a hard drive problem? I have been running Slackware Linux on this same box for some time with no problems. I replaced the bins and floppy in question but still the same result. What about this problem? - Can anyone help? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09FFA.FC608C00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: Failed bin install using CD *and* Floppies 4.2

When you created the cd did you burn the .ISO image( = ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IM= AGES/4.2-install.iso ), or did you just create the cd some other = way? The easiest way to install I found was with boot floppies and that = .ISO cd image.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: David Anderson [mailto:DRCAnderson@xtra.co.nz= ]
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 6:34 PM
To: questions
Subject: Failed bin install using CD *and* Floppies = 4.2


Hi
Can anyone suggest anything helpful to the 2 = following 4.2 bin
install problems.

(i) With CD (burnt by me) all bin's including bin.inf = burnt onto
Mitsubishi 650mb/74inch.
Nothing else on this one time recordable = disk.

After choosing CDROM as install media.

"Warning: The CD currently in the drive is = either not a FreeBSD
CD or it is older (pre 2.1.5) FreeBSD CD which does = not have a
version number on it.
Do you want to use this anyway?"

I click ok then get ......"Unable to transfer = the bin
distribution from acd0c."

Has anybody else encountered this problem - Can = anyone help?

(ii) With 25 floppies carefully set up with bins and = bin.inf as
per install.txt I get 75% of the way and hit = "Write failure on
transfer! Wrote -1 bytes of 240640 = bytes."

Does this indicate a hard drive problem? I have been = running
Slackware Linux on this same box for some time with = no problems.
I replaced the bins and floppy in question but still = the same
result.

What about this problem? - Can anyone help?  Any = suggestions
would be much appreciated.


Dave


To Unsubscribe: send mail to = majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in = the body of the message

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