Richard Toohey wrote:
Asking the obvious questions to eliminate them first ...
1. Official CDs?
2. Can you read/copy the CD on *any* machines / *any* OS?
3. Specifically - if you FTP install OpenBSD , can you then mount /
copy / do anything with the CD?
4. dmesg(s)
Personal experience ...
I have installed 3.8 to 4.2 from CDs on machines from P3 500 to
Pentium D 2.something via Celeron 900Mhz (Dells, HPs, Compaqs,
desktops and laptops) - only real issue was a bogus 4.1 CD than no
machine would touch.
I had a CD error with 4.2 today (same CD that I have done 3 installs
with already!) when extracting Xenocara - so I umounted, ejected, took
CD out, waggled it around while saying magic incantation, remounted,
and tried again and it worked (well, no errors reported.)
HTH, YMMV, IANAD, etc.
On 1/11/2007, at 4:55 PM, Chris Zakelj wrote:
Evening... I'm trying install my fresh 4.2 CDs on a system that is
destined to become a samba server and build machine for CF-based
firewalls. Only I'm having a problem (obviously). This is the third
release where I'm having this issue, but previously I just chalked it
up to old, cranky CDROM drives, and went with FTP. But given this is
all new hardware, time to figure out what's really happening.
This system is fresh-built amd64 (but will be running/compiling all
i386 binaries to avoid having to cross-compile Soekris builds), IDE
DVD-ROM drive, SATA hard drive. Boots from CD, then gets through
partitioning, labelling, and formatting the drive just fine. Network
config sails through, until I finally hit "Let's install the sets!".
I hit enter for the defaults 'cd' and 'cd0', at which point I get the
following:
cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28
SENSE KEY: Media Error
ASC/ASCQ: ASC 0x11 ASCQ 0x06
This message repeats three times, at which point the installer gives
up, reports 'No filesystems found on cd0', and asks again where to
find the sets. For what it's worth, this happens on four different
i386 machines of various vintage (from a 16 year old 486 up through
tonight's Sempron build), with official CD releases from 4.0
onwards. I'm guessing I'm missing something obvious, but Google and
MARC didn't turn up anything, so cluesticks are welcome.
1. Yes, they're official CDs straight from austin@
2. Yes, both my WinXP laptop and WinXP-64 desktop can read/copy
3. I vaguely recall installing packages from one of them after doing
the FTP install, but I'll try again later tonight.
4. I'd love to, but except for the 486 (stuffed in a closet), they
don't have serial ports to redirect to.
