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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news1.digex.net!news3.digex.net!digex.net!not-for-mail From: dcmyers@access4.digex.net (David Myers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Fatal installation errors Date: 9 Jan 1996 17:28:04 -0500 Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA: 800-969-9090 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4cuq5k$sme@access4.digex.net> References: <4csga1$jhf@access4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: access4.digex.net In article <4csga1$jhf@access4.digex.net>, David Myers <dcmyers@access4.digex.net> wrote: > > > > >Thanks to previous correspondence with people in this group, I have some >suspicion that my CDROM is not a good SCSI citizen, and may be causing >problems on the bus. I already had to disable SCSI parity checking in the >Adaptec BIOS, because the NEC doesn't support it. However, I thought I >would post this to the group, and see if anyone else has had similar >experiences. Can anybody give me a clue as to what might be going on? Well, I found out that the CDROM is *not* the problem. After transferring the 2.1 minimal distribution to the DOS partition of my SCSI drive, I proceeded with the installation from DOS. The CDROM was disconnected entirely. DOS installation failed as well, in exactly the same way, with these "wrote -1 of 10240 bytes" errors. Note that the actual point of installation varies -- sometimes it's almost immediately after beginning, sometimes it's 90% of the way through. If I flip over to the alternate tty, it usually shows a more detailed message about page faults. What is going on? Is my motherboard just flakey? Clues and diagnoses appreciated. -David. -- ________________________________________ David C. Myers dcmyers@access.digex.net