Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:01:41 -0700 (PDT) From: alex carey <fire@cats.ucsc.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Not installing, no matter WHAT! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905201601110.2122-100000@cm-d0261.resnet.ucsc.edu>
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Hello, System: I have a 486 dx66 with 8MB RAM, one of those junky "Sound Blaster" Mistushita CD-ROMS, and an NE2000 ethernet card. Partitions: 450MB on / 120MB on /home ~66MB swap (all devoted bsd) Problem: Want to install BSD. I have the 4-cd set (3.0) and brand new, shiny boot disks that i d/l off the site and (correctly) dd'd. I've run the installation thing a million times already. I do all the kernel specs correctly, it recognizes all of my hardware. If i do the ethernet setup thing, i *AM* set up, i *AM* on the internet. It *SHOULD* work. But... When i get to the actual installation part of the deal, it gets to the first screen, where it's extracting bin to / and it just SITS there, and SITS there and SITS there. What i've tried: CD-ROM (sits at screen) ftp from ftp.freebsd.org (Undefined error: 0) ftp from my other machine, with the cd mounted on pub/3.0-RELEASE (sits at screen) my other machine is a p1/133 running RH5.2 floppies (patience gave out after the first disk wouldn't go) I'd really like this thing to work. Please help! alexandra carey fire@cats.ucsc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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