Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:33:43 -0500 From: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." <rarnold@colemantx.com> To: "Robert Huddleston" <rahuddleston@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEMS Message-ID: <001301bfa05b$39d39960$a17b403f@ronaldjr> References: <000a01bfa059$86c2a560$9e8a153f@rob>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] If you'll search the archives, you'll find that custom doesn't work, so use the novice install. More info on your computer would help otherwise. Ronald ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Huddleston To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:21 AM Subject: INSTALLATION PROBLEMS Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on an older machine - which I dont believe is the problem. I'm doing a custom installation in GUI mode. The installation is able to setup the partitions and etc ok, but when it gets to the part where it's trying to extract data from my CD-ROM, the CD-ROM spins up for a minute and transfers only 1024 bytes and the screen just hangs. I went to my VTY2 and it shows a line for Generating /etc/fstab - so I'm asuming my CD-ROM drive mounted okay but the next line I dont understand CD9660: RockRidge Extension Now I understand the 9660 as in ISO-9660 but thats where it stops. Is it maybe that the Rom drive I'm using is just really old and doesnt properly support the media maybe? Its an old either 2 or 4x IDE CD-Rom drive... It did support auto-boot surprisingly.. Didn't need the boot floppies. Please help.... [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you'll search the archives, you'll find that custom doesn't work, so use the novice install. More info on your computer would help otherwise.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ronald</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:rahuddleston@yahoo.com" title=rahuddleston@yahoo.com>Robert Huddleston</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 07, 2000 1:21 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> INSTALLATION PROBLEMS</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on an older machine - which I dont believe is the problem. I'm doing a custom installation in GUI mode. The installation is able to setup the partitions and etc ok, but when it gets to the part where it's trying to extract data from my CD-ROM, the CD-ROM spins up for a minute and transfers only 1024 bytes and the screen just hangs. I went to my VTY2 and it shows a line for Generating /etc/fstab - so I'm asuming my CD-ROM drive mounted okay but the next line I dont understand</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CD9660: RockRidge Extension</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now I understand the 9660 as in ISO-9660 but thats where it stops. Is it maybe that the Rom drive I'm using is just really old and doesnt properly support the media maybe?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Its an old either 2 or 4x IDE CD-Rom drive... It did support auto-boot surprisingly.. Didn't need the boot floppies.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please help....</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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