From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 10:03:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22857 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:03:26 -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 KAA22742 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:03:05 -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 KAA26145; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:02:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:02:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sue Blake cc: Jason Lewicki , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: <19980316095256.24051@welearn.com.au> 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 Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > > 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. > > Got any other hints? I'm having the same problem as Jason, using a 386 which > used to run FreeBSD (same version, 2.2.2) but has since had its SCSI > controller and FreeBSD disk and second I/O card removed, leaving the DOS > IDE. No other hardware has been changed, and I've tried disabling everything > nonessential in UserConfig (eventually all of Network and Communications) in > case there was unseen problems. No change. The same installation diskette > has been used successfully on another machine. Hit ALT-F2 and report what you see; it may indicate what device it's having trouble looking for. 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