From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 15:35:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20103 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:35:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20043 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:35:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA23730; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:35:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:35:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jason Lewicki cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: <01bd4f0d$cd534ec0$97623ace@cf> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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