From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 0:13:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Ultranet.ca (popper2.vphos.net [207.102.129.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEC8F37BB44 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Chains@Ultranet.ca) Received: from ultranet.ca ([209.52.215.5]) by popper2.vphos.net ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:13:08 -0700 Message-ID: <396D6C10.462BC735@Ultranet.ca> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:13:20 -0700 From: Rob Wilkinson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation on a 486-2/66 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a problem installing FreeBSD release 4.0 on my system. My System: ^^^^^^^^^ 486 DX2/66 8MB of RAM ISA Western Digital 340MB hardrive Motherboard: 452S (with VL-BUS) Disk Configuration: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 40MB DOS partition including the minimal install files in directory C:\FreeBSD\BIN The other partition is allocated to FreeBSD The Problem: ^^^^^^^^^^ After first going through the "OPTIONS" feature in the install, I selected install from MS-DOS partition 1. This works OK! Next when the installation setup program asked me to FDISK, I selected the unused partition for FreeBSD, created and set the slice as bootable. This works OK! For setup, i selected "A" for automatically configure the directories. This worked ok! **FINALLY, when it began installing from MS-DOS, it gets to about 9% (chunk 12 of 130) and it just sits there! My original install from the floppies (27 diskettes), would have the same problems (which is why I decided to install from MS-DOS on the same hardrive). I noticed that once i was able to install all the way up to 35% from diskette before the setup program decided to freeze. By hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE after freezing, sometimes it would continue installing. But recently it just starts re-installing the entire bin distribution after it gives me a read failure message. I have attempted to install FreeBSD many times but have been stopped at the same problem. Could you give me any insight as to why I would have this problem? Should i purchase the FreeBSD distribution CD and install from there? Thanks, Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message