Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:14:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: scsi disk geometry problems - cannot install FreeBSD. Message-ID: <20020527141325.U18408-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> In-Reply-To: <f05100327b9184619ddba@[10.0.1.90]>
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Well we tried the installation with floppies and it worked just fine. Very odd. --pt On Mon, 27 May 2002, Doug Hardie wrote: > >The problem is simple - I boot, enter custom install, set partition and > >labels and distributions, then commit the installation. > > > >The installer creates and initializes my partitions and reports success, > >then it starts to (try) to extract bin, man, ports, etc., and fails with > >this message: > > > >......"Unable to transfer the bin distribution from acd0c." > > > >------ > > I didn't see any answers to this and I cannot address the disk issue, > but that message indicates to me that it is having trouble with the > CD drive. Generally you get additional messages in addition to the > generic one above that provide more details on the issue. > -- > -- Doug > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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