Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:13:30 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "David Anderson" <DRCAnderson@xtra.co.nz>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Failed bin install using CD *and* Floppies 4.2 Message-ID: <005101c0a028$46e4a720$6100000a@vladsempire.net> References: <00a501c09f84$26631120$047ba8c0@co.nz>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Anderson" <DRCAnderson@xtra.co.nz> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 5:33 PM Subject: Failed bin install using CD *and* Floppies 4.2 > Hi > Can anyone suggest anything helpful to the 2 following 4.2 bin > install problems. > > (i) With CD (burnt by me) all bin's including bin.inf burnt onto > Mitsubishi 650mb/74inch. > Nothing else on this one time recordable disk. > > After choosing CDROM as install media. > > "Warning: The CD currently in the drive is either not a FreeBSD > CD or it is older (pre 2.1.5) FreeBSD CD which does not have a > version number on it. > Do you want to use this anyway?" > > I click ok then get ......"Unable to transfer the bin > distribution from acd0c." > > Has anybody else encountered this problem - Can anyone help? > I'm not totally sure on this, but I think that selecting CD for media means that the installer is going to look for a CD burned from an iso image. I've tried to make CDs by not using the iso in the past and they have always bombed exactly the way that yours is. (If there is a way to do it, I don't know it.) > (ii) With 25 floppies carefully set up with bins and bin.inf as > per install.txt I get 75% of the way and hit "Write failure on > transfer! Wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes." > > Does this indicate a hard drive problem? I have been running > Slackware Linux on this same box for some time with no problems. > I replaced the bins and floppy in question but still the same > result. Don't know about this one. I'd say avoid a floppy install if at all possible. Josh > What about this problem? - Can anyone help? Any suggestions > would be much appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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