Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 19:04:29 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Tad Marko" <txtad@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation Hang Message-ID: <000f01bffe70$ba800e90$40440ace@mark8> References: <20000804144709.569.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Tad Marko" <txtad@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 9:47 AM Subject: Installation Hang > Hello, > > Having having been a Linux-head for a while, I thought I'd give FreeBSD > a try. A friend gave me an old Packard-Hell P133. A couple of weeks > ago, I bought the FreeBSD Power Pack at Fry's, but didn't realize that > it was an old 3.3 release. However, I went ahead and installed it while > a friend downloaded the 4.0 and then 4.1 releases for me. > > The 3.3 release installed just fine, but I never really ran the system > that way because my friend had the 4.0 CD ready for me. I installed > from that, or tried to, and that's when the trouble began. The CD will > boot fine, and I get as far as beginning to copy /bin to the hard > drive, but then the install hangs at 4% into the copy. > > At first I thought the CD was corrupt, and that's when my friend got > 4.1 for me. Expecting that everything would be just fine now, I tried > installing from that one. Same problem, but now at 2% into the copy. If > I try booting from floppies, the same thing occurs. > > Help! Does anyone have any idea what might be different between 3.3 and > 4.0 and 4.1 that would be stopping me? Since I'm booting from the CD, I > assume the CD is visible to the installer. Since the 3.3 install worked > fine last week, I expect that there is no reason why 4.1 cannot be made > to work. > > Any help is appreciated, > Thanks! > > Tad > Try another install, but hit F2 when it starts to copy files and see if it gives an error message to that terminal when it hangs. I don't know of any reason why 3.3 would install and 4.0 or 4.1 wouldn't, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. :) Josh > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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