From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 6:30:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462A014BC5 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbrice@earthlink.net) Received: from johnrice (pool0022.cvx23-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.204.22]) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA11942; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:30:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:29:44 -0700 Message-ID: <01BF1932.2A7A98C0.jbrice@earthlink.net> From: John Rice Reply-To: "jbrice@earthlink.net" To: "'support@cdrom.com'" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: FreeBSD installation Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:29:04 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To whom it may concern, I recently purchased FreeBSD v3.2 from a local retailer. The package contained 4 cdrom's. After having difficulty getting FreeBSD to recoginze my cdrom drive so I could install it, I managed to configure everything so that I could install FreeBSD from my cdrom drive. I chose the minimal installation under the install menu. (the "user" option.) In addition, I chose to install the "ports" collection as well. When the installation process starts, it goes rather fast, but as it progresses, it slows down considerably. When I got to the part that says it's installing the "ports" collection, I let it run for over 3 hours, but it never completed the installation. Finally, I terminated the installation because I felt that it was taking too long. Approximatly how long does it take to install FreeBSD? Could this lengthly install time be there result of a misconfiguration of hardware? John Rice To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message