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To: Mitchell Ackerman <0006619934@mcimail.com>
Cc: bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: CDROM installation problems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 95 13:09:00 EST."
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 13:36:38 -0800
Message-ID: <6974.795735398@freefall.cdrom.com>
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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There are 3 versions of the FreeBSD CDROM (from 2 different manufacturers).

You'll have to give us just a LITTLE more detail! :-)

						Jordan

> I have just got through installing FreeBSD on my PC.  I encountered some
> problems, on of the worst with the CDROM.  It keeps on giving me checksum
> errors, but if I retry it sometimes it will work.  Additionally I keep gettin
g
> timeout messages, at which point it retries automatically, and so far it has
> always managed to finish what it is doing (e.g., installing something).
> 
> Is there anything to be done about these checksum & timeout errors?  I am
> running on a Comtrade 486DX2/66, with a DTC3290ASE (i think) EISA SCSI
> controller.  The CDROM is a mitsumi FX001 using the mitsumi interface card
> (non-scsi).
> 
> One related problem that I had was that I got a checksum error attempting to
> install XWindows, and had to reboot before completing the installation.  I th
us
> had no users defined so could not login and had to reinstall.  (I have since
> found out that I could have used root to login?).
> 
> Mitchell.
> 
> 
>