more on Problem Report i386/39574

[cwass99 at rogers.com]

Hi Paul,
     I don't know if this is any help at all or not, but I initially had the
same problem with 5.1.  I think it was a problem with the CD, as when I burned a
new one, everything worked fine.  I suspect in my case, the reader is getting a
little dirty and flakey, it certainly is old enough.

     I agree the other issues you point out (congratulations...) need to be
addressed.

Cheers,
Colin

On 13-Aug-2003 Paul Lambert wrote:
> I have obtained version 5.1 of FreeBSD and attempted to install it.  Still 
> get the same errors though not as much detail is given.  The error reads 
> "unable to transfer .... from ufs" where ... represents the specific 
> distribution such as /manpages, /dist, etc.
> 
> When performing a mount command while in the "fixit" shell I get /dev/acd0 
> on /dist (cd9660, local, read-only).  Previous documentation always 
> referred to the CDROM drive as /dev/cd0c, especially in the FreeBSD 
> handbook.  Is our problem a typo?
> 
> I have reviewed the first several chapters of the publication "FreeBSD" by 
> Walnut Creek that I obtained when version 4.4 was released.  Between 
> reading the www.freebsd.org web and this publication it is not totally 
> clear if I still need a floppy boot disk.  Maybe this is the problem.  The 
> book seems to imply that although a CDROM is available that sysinstall must 
> run from the floppy.
> 
> Of course, this is further complicated since the file "boot.flp" on the 
> floppies directory is 2.8 meg much larger than a floppy can hold.  Which of 
> course contradicts the web page instructions on using "fdimage" to make a 
> boot floppy in the first place.
> 
> If there is a quick fix to this, send it along to 
> "lambert_paul_j at lilly.com" and I will replace the files and burn a new CD 
> and let you know.  Otherwise it appears that this problem will linger 
> indefinitely.
> 
> There are other significant errors with the 5.1 install that weren't there 
> in 5.0.  For example, after I click "no" to the 15 or so transfer errors, 
> the system goes ahead and congratulates me on a successful install and asks 
> if I want to configure networking,user accounts, etc. even though no 
> software has been installed.  In version 5.0 at least the install program 
> detected a bad install and terminated the post install configuration.  It 
> also appears in 5.1 that it cycles 2-3 times through the transfer errors 
> before giving up.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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