Richard Toohey wrote:

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> 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.