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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!bigboote.WPI.EDU!news3.near.net!saturn.caps.maine.edu!maine.maine.edu!asusee Organization: University of Maine System Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 09:51:49 EDT From: <ASUSEE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Message-ID: <95144.095150ASUSEE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FReeBSD 2.0 CD Why no install? Lines: 21 OK if a more helpful FAQ than the ones one the CD exist could some kind person point me in that direction. I have made the boot and cpio floppies and gone thru the install procedure creating all the usr and usr/local etc..... checked to make sure that the geometry of my drive matches etc. When I proceed with the install it gets as far as unzipping to the hard drive and then displays some cryptic errors haphazardly across the screen... something like: fd0:recal failed st0 80<invld>cyl-1 fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 2368 of 2368-2374 (st0 44<abnrml, top_head> st1 1<no_am>st2 0 cyl 53 hd 0 s then it finishes the install and I remove the disk. reboot and it either tells me that init died, panic: going nowhere without my init or it gets as far as F1 . . . FREEBSD Default: F1 What am I doing wrong??? By the way this is on a 486 50 mhz maxtor hd 3.5 and 5.25 flops no DOS partition. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you in advance. Alan asusee@maine.maine.edu