Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:35:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jason Lewicki <jtodd@triax.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314153419.23647K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bd4f0d$cd534ec0$97623ace@cf>
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On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jason Lewicki wrote: > I recently purchased the 4 cd set of freebsd from walnut creek. I am > trying to install to a secondary hard drive. I get into the > installation just fine. I am booting off the cd and going straight into > install. after it goes through detection of my hardware I get a blank > screen with a solid cursor in the bottom left corner of the screen. > What does this mean? It just sits there with no activity and the > installation halts. The system's gotten stuck looking for something. If you have a Zip drive, disconnect it; this seems to be the showstopper for more recent versions. Hopefully this will end with the inclusion of a Zip driver in the next release. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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