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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 installation problems
From: barnaby.ng@canrem.com (Barnaby Ng)
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 22:54:00 -0500
Organization: CRS Online  (Toronto, Ontario)
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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