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From: "Dr. Dieter Hartmann" <dhartma@anat.uni-kiel.de>
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Hi,
I have experienced the same problems concerning the missing x32bin.tgz during a
dos installation from a
walnut creek cdrom (2.2.5). Are there any ideas as yet (broken links or
whatsoever) ?

Regards
Dieter

tony cappellini wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm using a Adaptec 2940UW, and 2 Seagate 2.1GB SCSI drives, Pentium 100,
> 64MB ram.
>
> (booting from the Cdrom is enabled in the 2940 bios)
>
> When I try booting 2.25 from my SCSI CDRom iI get the following messages
>
> "A bootable CDrom is detected in your CDrom drive"
>
> "The boot sections on your bootable CDrom are :0. Default Entry"
>
> "Your cdrom drive is inserted as Drive A: (0h). The original drive A" has
> become drive b:"
>
> Then the system sits there indefinitely.
>
> So I tried booting to dos, then running install forn the Cdrom. This works
> well, until I get tot the "Select Distribution Medium" section of Lehey's
> book "The Complete Free BSD" (2nd edition), then when I select CDRom, it
> tells me no Cdroms were found.
>
> Then I tried copying the CDrom to a dos partition, using the setup.exe
> program (which was described in the sysinstall documentation), and after a
> few seconds of CDrom and HD activity, an error message is displayed
> "x32bin.tgz" is missing, and the copying aborts.
>
> How could they have left a file off of the install cdrom ???
>
> Not to mention that the Walnut Creek tech support line has been busy all day.
> I'm guessing I'm not the only one calling in with install problems :)
>
> BTW, The CDRom works fine under W95, so I know the host  adapter/ cdrom
> combo is working.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> thanks
>
> Tony
>
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