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Date:      Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        antonel <antonel@rohan.sdsu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808101623520.29015-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199808100139.SAA04700@rohan.sdsu.edu>

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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


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