From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 19:29: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B1137B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow053o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2152843E6E for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:29:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from pcow053o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:29:00 +0100 Received: from cream.org (unverified [62.31.80.97]) by pcow053o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:29:00 +0100 Message-ID: <3D4DE3A2.5060603@cream.org> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 03:32:02 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dee Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation References: <000001c23c25$9aaed200$057ba8c0@david> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dee wrote: > Sorry for the intrusion. I’m a newbie and have followed the FreeBSD > handbook closely. > > I have a technical issue with FreeBSD 4.6 installation. After the > installation, my computer hangs while “extracting ports into /usr > directory. > > I have tried different cd rom drives, hard drives and even different > ISOs. > > Could it be my partition sizes? > There's absolutely nothing wrong with deciding your own partition sizes. Unfortunately, you've run into a well-known bug in 4.6-RELEASE. This problem, and several others are covered in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/errata.html which you really need to read. It will explain to you a way of hopefully getting FreeBSD to install on your system. You should also read the security advisories listed on that page and decide if they represent security problems for you. You may also be interested to hear that there is a 4.6.2-RELEASE planned in the next few weeks that will fix the problem you are having and several others. Good Luck! :-) Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message