From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 1:41:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Bespin.worldnet.net (bespin.worldnet.net [195.3.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F13E14F2B for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 01:41:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcasidy@worldnet.fr) Received: from greatoak.home (p14-014.province.worldnet.fr [195.3.14.14]) by Bespin.worldnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14157; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:35:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from pcasidy@localhost) by greatoak.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA01505; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:17:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcasidy) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:17:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199909080817.KAA01505@greatoak.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 References: <19990907032509.47572.qmail_hotmail.com@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <19990907032509.47572.qmail_hotmail.com@ns.sol.net> From: pcasidy@worldnet.fr (Philippe CASIDY) Subject: Re: New Install fails X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.questions To: "Ed Smith" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19990907032509.47572.qmail_hotmail.com@ns.sol.net>, "Ed Smith" writes: > After a very sucessful I reboot to start the first time running and it comes > up and says automatic reboot and then a few checks on the drives for > fragmentation then it says hostname. and then that is the end it just dies > there. I have checked everything from disk geometry all my hardware is > compatible and without conflict. I'm not on the mailing list so please > reply to me directly or tell me how to subscibe if nessary. Thanks for your > help! > Are you sure it is dying? Can you just wait a few minutes and see what happens? Generally speaking the install works very fine but there lay be something missing in the configuration. What version of FreeBSD do you use? Which hardware? You can have a look http://freebsd.org/handbook/handbook356.html#709 or something similar for a description about how to subscribe to the mailing lists. Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message