From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 14:19:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from utility.clubscholarship.com (utility.clubscholarship.com [198.78.70.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEBB37B405 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 14:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by utility.clubscholarship.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4RLE6S56979; Mon, 27 May 2002 14:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:14:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Thomas To: Doug Hardie Cc: Subject: Re: scsi disk geometry problems - cannot install FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020527141325.U18408-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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