Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:21:07 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de> To: dbalder@unm.edu (David B. Alder) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!! Message-ID: <199801161921.UAA00566@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980115124443.006944c8@unm.edu> from "David B. Alder" at "Jan 15, 98 12:44:43 pm"
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It was David B. Alder who wrote: > I'm about to pull out my hair. I've tried to install 5 different versions > of Linux from three different companies on my machine. I know you can't > help me with that, but I've also tried to install 2 different versions of > FreeBSD, 2.1.5 and 2.2.5. I've tried all 7 versions multiple times each. > Varying the parameters each time. None of which installed completely. > They all lock-up partially through the installation process. The FreeBSD What do you mean by `lock-up partially' ? Does NumLock still react ? > versions both lock-up during the ports part of the installation. Generally It sounds very much like a hardware problem. (May be something temperature related in the protected mode part.) I had a 486-board which would crash FreeBSD when still cold. After 3/4 h of running it would work fine. There were no problems under DOS, however. What type of board do you have ? Robert > after about 3 to 5 minutes through. The funny thing is, that I had > installed 2.2.5 a while back, but I had the same problems. One time it > didn't lock up until the end, so I had installed enough of the OS to boot > it and configure. I have a 486 DX4-100 with a 3.2GB and a 1.2GB drive. I > also have a Goldstar 16X cdrom. All of these items are detected when the > setup is loading from floppy. Do you have any advice? What is going on? > > David Alder -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de
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