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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 installation problems From: barnaby.ng@canrem.com (Barnaby Ng) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!portnoy!canrem.com!barnaby.ng Distribution: world Message-ID: <60.11356.5307.0N1D0C11@canrem.com> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 22:52:00 -0500 Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario) Lines: 37 I'm the unfortunate soul who had the "Fatal code=5888" error while trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 from Walnut Creek CD. I took the "proper" way to fix the problem: changed the extended BIOS translation and low level format the drives. (Justin Gibbs suggested that I should specify 255/63 translation in fdisk, but it didn't work) Now I got passed the initial stage of installation (boot and cpio) and tried to install the bindist. After I specified the source of the bindist, sysinstall verified the checksums, and extracted some files onto my disk, and then it STOPPED. The install screen still shown "Extracting bindist distribution. Please wait!", but it just sit there, no disk i/o, no nothing. The machine was not hung. I could switch between the install and debug screen, but it just won't finish installing bindist. I'd tried other modules: no problem installing games, but ran into the same problem installing manpages. I tried changing hardware setup like slow the CD-ROM transfer rate to 5MB/sec, disable synchronous negotiation, introduce more wait state etc. NOTHING helps. The debug screen show the followings:- (a bunch of "/stand/cpio: umount linked" message) /stand/cpio:umount linked to tip umount 2286 blocks Progress <unlink /stand/need_cpio_floppy> Progress <Verifying checksums for distribution. Please wait!> Progress <Extracting bindist distribution. Please wait!> Extracting bindist, please wait. And then it just sit there. HELP PLEASE!!! % Barnaby Ng % Toronto, Canada % barnaby.ng@canrem.com