Newbie Install - Fresh Meat!!

Eduardo Viruena Silva mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx
Mon Apr 28 15:36:40 PDT 2003


On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Dave Brock wrote:

> Whew! What doesn't kill me will make me stronger, right?

> I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. However, I'm having two
> distinct problems...or maybe even related for all I know!
>
> 1) When I attempt install from the CD-ROM I get a Fatal Trap 12 error
> for my CD-Rom on bootup.
>
> 2) When I boot from the floppies I can make my slices and labels just
> fine but when the actual file system install begins it tells me that
> there was an error with my CD-ROM.
>
> It sounds to me like I'm having a CDROM driver issue but when I try to
> start over it skips the initial hardware configuation setup. I don't
> know what to do and if I am even looking in the right places. Please
> help me out. If I can get this goin' I know I'll be BSD for life!  = )


check your BIOS.
Make sure you are not swaping your disk.

>
> Thanks,
> Dave Brock
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