Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:13:20 -0700 From: Rob Wilkinson <Chains@Ultranet.ca> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation on a 486-2/66 Message-ID: <396D6C10.462BC735@Ultranet.ca>
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I have a problem installing FreeBSD release 4.0 on my system.
My System:
^^^^^^^^^
486 DX2/66
8MB of RAM
ISA Western Digital 340MB hardrive
Motherboard: 452S (with VL-BUS)
Disk Configuration:
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40MB DOS partition including the minimal install files
in directory C:\FreeBSD\BIN
The other partition is allocated to FreeBSD
The Problem:
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After first going through the "OPTIONS" feature in the install,
I selected install from MS-DOS partition 1. This works OK!
Next when the installation setup program asked me to FDISK,
I selected the unused partition for FreeBSD, created and set the
slice as bootable. This works OK!
For setup, i selected "A" for automatically configure the directories.
This worked ok!
**FINALLY, when it began installing from MS-DOS, it gets to about
9% (chunk 12 of 130) and it just sits there! My original install from
the
floppies (27 diskettes), would have the same problems (which is why
I decided to install from MS-DOS on the same hardrive). I noticed that
once i was able to install all the way up to 35% from diskette before
the
setup program decided to freeze. By hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE after
freezing, sometimes it would continue installing. But recently it just
starts
re-installing the entire bin distribution after it gives me a read
failure message.
I have attempted to install FreeBSD many times but have been stopped at
the same problem. Could you give me any insight as to why I would
have this problem? Should i purchase the FreeBSD distribution CD
and install from there?
Thanks,
Rob
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