From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 6:55:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athena.connectalk.com (athena.connectalk.com [204.19.165.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A18C14FA7 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madamus@connectalk.com) Received: from webmail ([10.125.204.41]) by athena.connectalk.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA618E; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:52:50 -0400 From: "Michel Adamus" To: jbrice@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation X-Mailer: Netscape Messenger Express 3.5.2 [Mozilla/3.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC)] Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:52:50 -0400 Message-ID: <7727DF751482.AAA618E@athena.connectalk.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ______________________________________________ 1. Once the installation starts, go and look at the messages to see what is going on (ALT-F2 or ALT-F3, I can't remember, one will give you a shell and the other will show you messages). 2. The time of installation will take some time but not 3 hours. Unless you have a 1 x cdrom, probably not. look at your logs. Good luck. -A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message