FreeBSD Installation Problems

[Bill Moran]

Sukhbinder Singh wrote:
> By the way, I am now installing FreeBSD version 4.7 not version 5.0 any
> longer.
> 
> When I try installing it using the Floppy disk method it gives me a
> different type of error message. This time it gives me an error message
> like,
>  "unable to transfer the bin distribution from fd0 Do you want to try to
> retrieve it again? Yes No " If I press yes it keeps on showing the same
> error  message  "unable to transfer the bin distribution from fd0 Do you
> want to try to retrieve it again? Yes No ". If I press No it gives me
> another message like,
> "unable to save boot -c changes to new kernel, please see the debug screen
> (ALT -F2) for details. Then finally it gives me another message like
> "MAKEDEV returned non - zero status. "  can anyone help concerning this
> problem. Do I need to custom my the kernel first before setting anything up,
> because I did went pass the kernel configuration stage, I did not do any
> kernel configuration or custom configuration on kernel but passed it.

The last time I did a floppy install (about 3 years ago) I had to scrap
every third disk as bad.  It's very likely that the particular disk you're
trying to use is bad.
That "unable to transfer xxx distribution" seems to happen the most often
with bad media (i.e. disks/cds or bad disk/cd drive)  I would check there
first.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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