Re: CDrom problems

2004-06-02 Thread Mark Weinem
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Donald Szatkowski wrote: It appears that there are quite a few problems with basic setup and cdrom. Could someone please post a copy of associated files to give an example of setup? 1. add vfs.usermount=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf 2. run sysctl

CDrom problems

2004-05-25 Thread Donald Szatkowski
It appears that there are quite a few problems with basic setup and cdrom. Could someone please post a copy of associated files to give an example of setup? The kernel.GENERIC is okay for root access to the cdrom, but there are problems allowing general users access. Just the general

Re: CDrom problems

2004-05-25 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:25:34AM -0500, Donald Szatkowski wrote: It appears that there are quite a few problems with basic setup and cdrom. What does this mean? Please elaborate: do you mean that setup beginning with sysinstall is problematic, in that you cannot use your cdrom drive during

Re: Possible CDROM problems with install

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Leman
Thanks for the advice. I wiped the drive and successfully installed the minimal install. Since things looked good at that point, I tried to add some software packages. There I ran into trouble. Almost every package errored out. By pressing ALT-F2, I observerd the following errors: gzip:

Re: Possible CDROM problems with install

2003-11-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Leman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install Freebsd 4.8 on a computer and having a great deal of problems. The first time I tried the install stopped when the doc install was at 100% and would not go on. I rebooted and it would boot, but I didn't have much. I tried booting

Possible CDROM problems with install

2003-10-31 Thread Mike Leman
I am trying to install Freebsd 4.8 on a computer and having a great deal of problems. The first time I tried the install stopped when the doc install was at 100% and would not go on. I rebooted and it would boot, but I didn't have much. I tried booting from the CD to finish the install,