From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 23:34:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web118.yahoomail.com (web118.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDD3037B67F for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 23:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from txtad@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 19090 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Aug 2000 06:34:38 -0000 Message-ID: <20000805063438.19089.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com> Received: from [208.24.15.36] by web118.yahoomail.com; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 23:34:38 PDT Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 23:34:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Tad Marko Subject: Re: Installation Hang To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Josh Paetzel wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- Well, either F2 doesn't display anything helpful, or I just wasn't able to hit it quick enough. Basically, what happens is I get as far as the Extracting bin into / directory... screen and it stops at 482304 bytes read from bin dist, chunk 3 of 132 @ 235.5 KB/sec. and hangs. Tad > From: "Tad Marko" > To: > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 9:47 AM > Subject: Installation Hang > > > > 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 > > > > Try another install, but hit F2 when it starts to copy files and see > if it > gives an error message to that terminal when it hangs. > > I don't know of any reason why 3.3 would install and 4.0 or 4.1 > wouldn't, > but that doesn't mean there isn't one. :) ===== It's tough being libertarian. Liberals think you're a conservative, conservatives think you're a liberal. This isn't my real email address. I only use this one when I need web access to mail. You can reply to this note here, but my real email address is tad@earthling.net __________________________________________________ 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