From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 18:42:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA13903 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA13898 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA15292; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:42:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:42:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Stewart cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2 install problems In-Reply-To: <199709071705.MAA21418@admin.inetport.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Mike Stewart wrote: > I am trying to install freebsd from the Walnut Creek CDROM. > The CDROM is the 2.2.2 July 1997 release. > I have an atapi CDROM, and when I look at the log file using > the ALT-F2 option, I see many errors like this: > /stand/cpio invalid header > warning skipped ____ bytes of junk > > Then when makedev runs, it has a error, missing files, etc. I've not seen this before. Are you sure you're installing from the CDROM and not from a DOS partition, say? > In the install book it mentions using the atapi.flp boot floppy > file, but it is not on the CDROM. I also looked at your web > site, and I dont see it there either. The book is out of date; atapi.flp hasn't existed since 2.1.5, released last year. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo