From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 23 15:08:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25869 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25827 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-112.laker.net [208.0.233.12]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id SAA00087; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:07:47 -0400 Message-Id: <199809232207.SAA00087@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Omar Gadir" Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:07:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:35:52 -0700, Omar Gadir wrote: >I am using the following hardware configuration: > >1- AMD-K6 2 300 Processor >2- 8x64 64MB SDRAM PC100 >3- Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI >4- IBM 4.3 DCAS-34330, 4.3 GByte disk >5- Diamond Stealth 4000 4MB AGP >6- Sound Blaster 16 PnP 3D >7- FIC Rockwell 56 W/Voice PCI >8- 32X IDE CDROM >9- 1.44 Floppy Nice system, dude... >I decided to install FreeBSD using the CDROM. DOS is not installed in the >system. I did not modify >BIOS, because the adaptec card is intelligent. It makes the required >geometry modifications to >the SCSI disk. Please note that the size of the SCSI disk in BIOS is set to > > I gigabyte. > I partitioned the disk and I selected "A" to use the entire disk. The I >labelled the disk and I proceeded >to install FreeBSD. The system always hangs while installing software in >root. I tried to configure the kernel, >but the problem persisted. Did you switch to virtual console 2 (ttyv1, you get there with Alt-F2). On that console, there is a "debug" session that shows all the file copying, and such. Sometimes during installs, the system is actually busy but quiet on ttyv0. Others may have more helpful info, I just wanted to make sure you knew about the debug session on ttyv1. Good luck... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message