From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 7:30:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8258A37B403 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 07:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 9645 invoked by uid 202); 5 Jun 2001 14:30:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 14:30:15 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010605163654.0200ee48@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:38:04 +0200 To: , freebsd-questions From: Cynic Subject: Re: install of FreeBSD 4.3 hangs In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 hi there, the F2 screen is tty2, the stderr of /stand/sysinstall goes there (stdout to tty1). At 16:30 5.6. 2001, burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >Hi, > >I received my 4.3 CD set a few days ago ... have been waiting to place it >'next to' my Debian GNU/Linux installation for weeks now ... fwiw, I am >new to FreeBSD. > >Preparation (resizing partitions, etc) went flawlessly, but I have twice >had the install hang interminably when trying to install >XFree86-Server-4.0.3_1. Here is what I get: > >"Adding packages/All/XFree86-Server-4.0.3_1.tgz from acd0c" > >"Package XFree86-Server-4.0.3_1 read successfully - waiting for >pkg_add(1)" > > >... the second time this happened I just let it sit all night in the hopes >that something was just taking a long time. No dice. > >I searched the list archives and it appears this -has- come up before (tho >with the 4.0.1 version of this package) ... the previous post-er was asked >"What shows on the F2 screen." > >SO - what I'd like to know before I slog through the whole process again, >only to arrive at a hung up screen, is: what is the F2 screen? I'm >assuming it's something that pops up when you press F2! I must have missed >reading something ... > >Also, given that this is not an unknown problem, can someone give me a >hint (a guess, I guess) as to what might be hanging up the system here? Do >I have defective CDs? > >Thanks in advance for any light shed on this. > >Best, > >Glenn Becker > >+----------------+ >http://www.burningclown.com >"Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" >+----------------+ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------end of quote------ cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message