From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 19:20:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01950 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:20:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01914 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA05663; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:19:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:19:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Kramer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980119001340.007ac5c0@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Brian Kramer wrote: > Hello! > > I just purchases FreeBSD 2.2.5 and I'm having very many problems trying to > install it on my machine. I have resorted to the Hardware.txt file many > times, and tried everything it suggests, but nothing I do seems to work. > The problem is that every time the hardware probe runs, my system seems to > freeze up (blank screen with cursor on the bottom left). I have tried > everything the help file says...I do have a 3com Ethernet card 3c509 and > Did what the help file said. I have done everything I can to try to get > this probe not to freeze, but it does regardless what I do. Am I missing > something? Is something defective with my CD? Help! Can you be more specific as to where it's locking up? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major