Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:02:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Barriscale <barrisca@freedom.ucc.ie> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305220113.24994L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.94.980304132202.949A-100000@freedom.ucc.ie>
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Paul Barriscale wrote: > The installation seems to be hanging for some reason just at the start of > installion. I have (had) windows 95 on my disk. I partitioned the disk > drive using partition magic anyway I ended up removing the file allocation > table FAT, so i couldn't read windows 95 partition. I then proceeded to > format it and decided just to install freebsd on its own. What version of FreeBSD is this? Realize that FreeBSD requires it's own slice. You should have deleted all partitions on the disk. > I got through > the entire process including making file systems /usr /var and so on. When > I had selected all the packages I wanted I went to install it. For some > reason then it just hanged at the first file, xzoom.tgz i think. > message at the bottom read xzoom.tgz read successful opening pack (001) > something close to that. And the hard disk light was on all the time while > it hanged which was for about 10 minutes. Could there be something wrong > with the CD. Press ALT-F2 and see what you can find. 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
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