From: Chris Zakelj (c.zakeljieee.org)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2007 - 07:47:06 CDT

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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.

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