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From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley)
Subject: Re: Installation Problems
Organization: 1 Bagshot Row, the Shire
Message-ID: <DBxM4M.5yJ@bagend.atl.ga.us>
References: <9507181317002015@rio.muc.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:53:10 GMT
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In article <9507181317002015@rio.muc.de>,
Thomas Schreiber  <ts@rio.muc.de> wrote:

>1. Installing directly from CD: Boot-Programm (called from 
>INSTALL.BAT) stops with emm386-Error.

Try running dos's memmaker (read the manual first:) and see if that
fixes this problem.

>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.

Bad floppy?  Bad CD?  Less than compatible soundblaster card?

>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.

The files need to be in subdirectories under d:\freebsd, like

d:\freebsd\bin
d:\freebsd\floppies

>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.

Soundblaster compatible cards may not be so compatible under other
than DOS.  It could be a thousand different things.  If all else
fails, the install from a dos partition should go better once you
get the files in subdirectories.  You need at least bin and floppies
to test this.
-- 
Jan Isley              Heroes have the shelf life of cottage cheese,
jan@bagend.atl.ga.us   and public memory is shorter than Dudley Moore.
                       -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson