Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:29:04 -0700 From: John Rice <jbrice@earthlink.net> To: "'support@cdrom.com'" <support@cdrom.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <01BF1932.2A7A98C0.jbrice@earthlink.net>
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To whom it may concern, I recently purchased FreeBSD v3.2 from a local retailer. The package contained 4 cdrom's. After having difficulty getting FreeBSD to recoginze my cdrom drive so I could install it, I managed to configure everything so that I could install FreeBSD from my cdrom drive. I chose the minimal installation under the install menu. (the "user" option.) In addition, I chose to install the "ports" collection as well. When the installation process starts, it goes rather fast, but as it progresses, it slows down considerably. When I got to the part that says it's installing the "ports" collection, I let it run for over 3 hours, but it never completed the installation. Finally, I terminated the installation because I felt that it was taking too long. Approximatly how long does it take to install FreeBSD? Could this lengthly install time be there result of a misconfiguration of hardware? John Rice To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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