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.
