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From: "Mariusz Potocki" <potok@free.polbox.pl>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:47:01 +0000
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> I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.7 from a CD. I am doing this from 
> a bootdisk. Whenever I reach the part of installation when the 
> computer begins to read data from the CD it fails. Keeps giving me an 
> error about the CD not containg the right data. I have a NEC ATAPI 
> CDROM.
> 
>                                                       Thank you,
> 
>                                                       Kuan Chen
> 

Are you using original CD-ROM from Walnut Creek?
I installed FreeBSD from CD included to newspaper issued in my 
country with unusual directory tree, so in my case it was not 
possible to link to ports (they were absent).
Maybe that's your problem?

                                            Mariusz