From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 06:26:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA14561 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 06:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA14493 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 06:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) id QAA00220; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:23:02 +0300 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:23:01 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD gets stuck while copying installation files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I had 2.1.0-Release installed with Win95 on the same machine, until when Win95 required a reboot for some change in its control panel, and the machine stopped rebooting. I had to reset the machine's setup, because the PCI cards couldn't get an IRQ allocated to them. This made Win95 boot just fine, but FreeBSD would get stuck while fsck-ing. If I'd boot single-user and fsck manually, it would get stuck later on, always with the drive LED on. I decided to reinstall FreeBSD. When I try to install, either from the EIDE CDROM, or from a DOS partition, the installation hangs when copying files into /usr/bin (usually while copying gcc). The frustrating thing is that before that reboot-incident I installed FreeBSD from the CDROM with no problem whatsoever. The configuration is : a DEC Venturis 5100, 100Mhz Pentium, dual EIDE controller with a primary DOS partition and the BSD root, /var and swap on /wd0, another DOS partition and the BSD /usr partiton on /wd2, and a CDROM as the slave on the first channel. I also have a DE435 and an Adaptec 2940 on the PCI (nothing connected to the SCSI). Any help would be appreciated. Nadav