Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:02:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Jason Lewicki <jtodd@triax.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980316100228.26071N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980316095256.24051@welearn.com.au>
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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > > The system's gotten stuck looking for something. If you have a Zip drive, > > disconnect it; this seems to be the showstopper for more recent versions. > > Hopefully this will end with the inclusion of a Zip driver in the next > > release. > > Got any other hints? I'm having the same problem as Jason, using a 386 which > used to run FreeBSD (same version, 2.2.2) but has since had its SCSI > controller and FreeBSD disk and second I/O card removed, leaving the DOS > IDE. No other hardware has been changed, and I've tried disabling everything > nonessential in UserConfig (eventually all of Network and Communications) in > case there was unseen problems. No change. The same installation diskette > has been used successfully on another machine. Hit ALT-F2 and report what you see; it may indicate what device it's having trouble looking for. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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