From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 16:24:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17446 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17437 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA10538; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:24:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:24:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: antonel cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199808100139.SAA04700@rohan.sdsu.edu> 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 Sun, 9 Aug 1998, antonel wrote: > Guys, > > I'm stuck. When I try to install (I'm using 2.2.5) I get the following message. > > Error mounting /dev/wcd0c on /dist. Input/output error (5). Hm, your cd-rom drive didn't mount correctly. > > A second, following error reads > > Unable to initialize selected media. > > Note that I have had a system up and running, twice before. > Unfortunately, both times were followed, after several months, by disk > crashes. So I am once again starting out fresh. > > I have an ATAPI CD-ROM. I am sharing a 400 MEG MSDOS partition with a > 1 GIG FreeBSD partition and a following NTFS partition of about 2.5 > GIG. You're sure the ATAPI CDROM was detected on startup? 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