From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 0:42:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAA537B99A for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e6D7gjL42679; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:42:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007130742.e6D7gjL42679@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Rob Wilkinson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 In-Reply-To: <396D6C10.462BC735@Ultranet.ca> From: Chris Fedde Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:42:45 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:13:20 -0700 Rob Wilkinson wrote: +------------------ | I have a problem installing FreeBSD release 4.0 on my system. | | My System: | ^^^^^^^^^ | 486 DX2/66 | 8MB of RAM | ISA Western Digital 340MB hardrive | Motherboard: 452S (with VL-BUS) | | I have attempted to install FreeBSD many times but have been stopped at | the same problem. Could you give me any insight as to why I would | have this problem? Should i purchase the FreeBSD distribution CD | and install from there? | | Thanks, | Rob +------------------ I'm interested to see that you are attempting to install FreeBSD on such old hardware. I have a few motherboards like that laying around and have concidered using them as say dedicated home automation controlers. I'm, assuming 4.0 install here. I don't know if this was true of 3.3 or if it is true of 3.5... If you get to where the system is actually installing packages there are three virtual terminals available F1 F2 and F4 F1 has the blue "dummies" scrieen that shows how far the processis and a couple other bits of data. F2 is a log of the output from the distribution install and F4 is a root shell prompt. You may get a better clue about what is breaking by watchcing F2 and poking around with the shell on F4. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message