From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 08:42:30 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA12598 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 08:42:30 -0800 Received: from freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (freenet.edmonton.ab.ca [198.161.206.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA12588 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 08:42:26 -0800 Received: by freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/FEAC1.002) id AA24066; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 09:29:45 -0700 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 09:29:45 -0700 (MST) From: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca To: chris@mpx.com.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installations problems In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Mar 1995 chris@mpx.com.au wrote: > I have attempted to install FreeBSD 2.0 from the Walnut Creek CD - (the one > ... stuff deleted ... > I can install from the CD everything BUT the XFREE86 material. When I > select that part for installation, I first get the dialogue box: > "Verifying Checksums ... wait!" > This is then followed by the dialogue box: > "Extracting ... wait!". > > Unfortunately from that point on nothing happens. There is no activity on > the CD ROM or the hard drive. I was told there's something wrong with the checksums on the CD. I think I worked around it with the following sequence: mkdir /cdrom mount_cd9600 /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd /cdrom/XFree86-3.1 ./extract.sh > ...tell me the 'commands' I have to issue to work through it. I'm > afraid I'm not all that literate in 'unix'. I'm not either. 8-) I still haven't finished configuring XFree86 8-(, as I am learning more about administration first. ------------------------------------------------- Bill Lee E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada