Being new to this myself, I can only tell you that I had the same problem with the 5.1 CURRENT release. It worked fine on one of my newer machines but your mentioned error came up on one of my older ones. I tried the 4.8 STABLE release and it worked fine on both machines.
-Steve On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 02:06, Adam King wrote: > Hi all. > > I am new to FreeBSD and recently bought a packaged CD set and am > installing it on a second hard drive. I am booting directly from the CD, > configure all relevant option and and when I commit to installing, it > fails with the error message: > > Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/Output error (5) > > I browsed the mailing list and found another person with the same > problem, but without an appropriate fix. Does anyone know what the > problem is? > > Thanks, > Adam > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
