Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:15:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Nick P." <sundog2000@excite.com> To: jez.hancock@munk.nu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031112051554.3177413409@xmxpita.excite.com>
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Jez, >Have you checked the integrity of the installation CD you're >trying to install from? It could be that it's corrupted and >causing problems. I did check the MD5 checksums -- but in addition to the CD install, I also tried a variety of other install methods - booting to CD and doing FTP install, booting to floppy and installing on a variety of different FTP servers. >The installation process is usually fairly painless and >generally very fast - as less than 5 minutes for a minimal >install on an amd athlon 2000. >Certainly shouldn't be taking as long as you mention :( Unfortunately, not painless or fast for me. :-( >Presumably you've read the handbook as well: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.>ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html I've looked there and have become quite intimate with the menus it documents. I like to think I could go through the install options blind-folded at this point. :-) >if you know enough to use Google you no doubt stumbled across >the handbook pretty early on :=) Googling has brought to my attention that many other people have had this problem, and also have not seemed to have found answers, as I alluded to in the original post. One found that when switching from the CD to FTP install it worked; this did not work for me. Thanks for your input. -Nick -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
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