From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 12 22:45:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA28379 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:45:24 -0800 Received: from Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Xenon.Stanford.EDU [36.28.0.25]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA28373 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:45:23 -0800 Received: by Xenon.Stanford.EDU (5.61+IDA/25-Xenon-eef) id AA00601; Thu, 12 Jan 95 22:45:10 -0800 From: Drew Hess Message-Id: <9501130645.AA00601@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Help installing 2.0-RELEASE To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:45:09 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1728 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to get 2.0-RELEASE installed on my PC. I grabbed the newest 1.44mb boot disk and the cpio disk from ftp.cdrom.com. Everything works great until I finish specifying mount points on my FreeBSD partition and begin copying /stand to the drive. At some point while copying these files from the install floppy, the floppy drive grinds 3 times and an error message appears on-screen. Unfortunately it's rather unceremoniously overwritten by the progress window, since the install program tries to keep chugging along. It's at some point during the zcat since zcat reports an I/O error as well. Anyway the install finishes, and the kernel is bootable off the hard drive, but then I get the following: exec /stand/sysinstall: error 8 or something to that effect. I guess I should have written it down. At this point the kernel panics and the system reboots. I've tried 3 different floppy disks and 3 different kernels (all from the pub/FreeBSD/2.0-RELEASE/floppies/newer directory) and I get the same result each time. I've also tried disabling internal and external cache and running the CPU at 8MHz during the install. Has anyone else experienced this behavior, or has a suggestion for me? My system configuration follows: Gateway 486DX2-66 VLB (Micronics JX30 motherboard) 24MB RAM Buslogic BT445S (revision F) (note -- floppy is running off mboard controller, not the BT445S floppy controller) WD AC2340 340MB IDE drive (drive 0) Conner CP30540 520MB SCSI-2 drive (drive 1, where I'm installing FreeBSD) I'm not yet on all the appropriate FreeBSD mailing lists (just announce) so I'd appreciate it if you could cc: me in your replies or mail me directly. Thanks -dwh- dhess@cs.stanford.edu