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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.ecrc.de!news.space.net!news.muc.de!ts!rio Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installation Problems Message-ID: <9507181317002015@rio.muc.de> From: Thomas Schreiber <ts@rio.muc.de> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:17:00 -0200 Distribution: world Organization: walk&talk Reply-To: ts@rio.muc.de X-Newsreader: rnMac v1.3b9 Lines: 40 Tried several ways to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 from Walnut Creek CD - without success: 1. Installing directly from CD: Boot-Programm (called from INSTALL.BAT) stops with emm386-Error. 2. Booting from BOOT-Floppy: Booting OK. After going through the necessary steps of preparation (creating and labeling disk sclices and so on) installation starts but produces lots of "invalid header:checksum error" (cpio) and "invalid compressed data--crc error" (gunzip) messages. (shown on the ALT-F2-Screen, seem to come from cpio and gunzip). After finishing of "installation" of the bin-Directory, installation-dialog informs that it could not install and asks for repetition. The same happens for all the other directories. 3. Assumed that there is some problem with the CDROM-Device/Hardware. So I copied the bin-Dist from CDROM to harddisk into D:FREEBSD. Same for the Floppy-Images as shown in Installation Guide. Now trying to install from DOS-Partition: Same preparation as above. Then starting installation. After making root filesystem etc. install tries to copy root floppy image but stops with message "Couldn't get root image from wd0s1! Will try to get it from floppy". Then "Please insert ROOT floppy in floppy drive A and press [ENTER]". Done so. Reaction after some time of loading: "Failed to retrieve piece bin/bin.aa. Aborting the transfer". 4. Proceeding according to troubleshooting hint and booting from floppy in configure-mode (-c). Disabling all devices that seem to be not needed. Then trying once again to install from CDROM. But the same problems as in (2) appear. Whats going wrong? My System: Pentium 50/75 PCI, Adaptec 2940, 8MB Ram, 520 MB Syquest IDE HD, 1024 IBM SCSI HD, Goldstar SCSI CDROM drive, NE2000 compat. Ethernet card, Soundblaster comp. card. Plus: Dialogic D41E/Fax40 board installed.