Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:14:10 +0200 From: Rico Pajarola <pajarola@cybertime.ch> To: ken keeler <kkeysler@nwlink.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot install 3.1 from CDROM Message-ID: <3.0.32.19990415001405.008ec570@shrike.overmind.ch>
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I had such a problem with an 486SX (66Mhz, VLB/ISA Bus, IDE Harddisk, 8M RAM), installing over ftp. The problem showed up no matter what version I choose, so I thought it was the computer (I tried FreeBSD 3.1, 3.0, 2.2.8, current and OpenBSD-curent, which seemed to halfway work). FreeBSD just seemed to do nothing at all, the progress indicator stayed at 0%, saying "extracting bin into / directory, 1024 bytes read from bin dist...". Looking at it with tcpdump i saw that the receive window was always 0, and the harddisk never bothered to make even the slightest sound (it was very loud normally). OpenBSD timeouted at the end of the base set, when it had to extract all those little timezone definition files. I can do without those files, but the whole box was so terribly slow, a simple ls in a small directory (2 files) took several seconds, and brought the load up to 1 (even my old 386 feeled an order of magnitude faster). I attributed the problems to the vlb-ide-controller, took the next box (which worked fine) and never bothered about it again... but maybe you can see some similarities with your hardware. Rico Pajarola ken keeler wrote: > I have been unable to install from the 3.1 CD's. I've tried installing > over a network cdrom and a local cdrom with the same results. > > The process hangs with the progress indicator at 0% and with the message > "extracting bin into / directory..." At the bottom of the screen the > message is, "1024 bytes read from bin dist, chunk 1 0f 102 @ 1.0 > KB/sec." The cd will start then quit. > > I have attempted this on two separate ATAPI CDROMS that are known to > work under 2.2.7 and 3.0. > > There is nothing in errata.txt about this condition. > > Has anyone else had this trouble, and what do I do to correct it? This > seems to be a problem with the floppies. Both floppies were formatted > using fdformat prior to copying the images (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp) on > them. I've read in the archive that the new system is "picky" about > floppy media. In an attempt to locate the source of the trouble, two > sets of floppies were made. Neither set produced any different results. > > Just to see what would happen, I used a 3.0 boot.flp to install, and the > install went, but, of course, the box would not boot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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