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Date:      Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:29:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        rupp@coredump.at
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Install problem on AS200 4/166
Message-ID:  <15374.40929.938605.806598@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011205215857.470.qmail@cassandra.coredump.at>
References:  <15374.40002.476399.463472@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011205215857.470.qmail@cassandra.coredump.at>

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rupp@coredump.at writes:
 > >  > If you mean "for text output", I don't understand. When I boot
 > >  > into the installation, it works, the kernel boots, and it comes to
 > >  > copying files. If I could not use TGA in any case, it should not work
 > >  > that far - should it?
 > > 
 > > It depends what you mean by "copying files"  
 > 
 > After all preliminary setup is done, the setup program starts to
 > retrieve the distribution sets, extracts them and writes the actual
 > files onto the disk. Sometime during this process, usually after
 > several minutes, and never at the same point, the machine freezes.
 > 
 > It's like the input was suddenly shut of with a valve.
 > "extracting file - extracting file - ex..[dead]"
 > 
 > > Have you actually done 'set console serial' at the >>> prompt, booted
 > > FreeBSD, and started the installation purely on the serial console?
 > Yes, then power cylce, and yes, purely on the serial console.

Sorry, then.  I have no clue.  Sounds like a hardware problem.

Drew

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