Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 07:47:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Tad Marko <txtad@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation Hang Message-ID: <20000804144709.569.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com>
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Hello, Having having been a Linux-head for a while, I thought I'd give FreeBSD a try. A friend gave me an old Packard-Hell P133. A couple of weeks ago, I bought the FreeBSD Power Pack at Fry's, but didn't realize that it was an old 3.3 release. However, I went ahead and installed it while a friend downloaded the 4.0 and then 4.1 releases for me. The 3.3 release installed just fine, but I never really ran the system that way because my friend had the 4.0 CD ready for me. I installed from that, or tried to, and that's when the trouble began. The CD will boot fine, and I get as far as beginning to copy /bin to the hard drive, but then the install hangs at 4% into the copy. At first I thought the CD was corrupt, and that's when my friend got 4.1 for me. Expecting that everything would be just fine now, I tried installing from that one. Same problem, but now at 2% into the copy. If I try booting from floppies, the same thing occurs. Help! Does anyone have any idea what might be different between 3.3 and 4.0 and 4.1 that would be stopping me? Since I'm booting from the CD, I assume the CD is visible to the installer. Since the 3.3 install worked fine last week, I expect that there is no reason why 4.1 cannot be made to work. Any help is appreciated, Thanks! Tad __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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