From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 9:59:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDE94516 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:59:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwlink.com (ip36.r16.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.176.36]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10181; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:59:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38A2FB57.E59FA40D@nwlink.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:54:31 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@matrix.web2000.ru Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting emergency holographic shell on VTY4 delay problem References: <00021014342300.05907@matrix.web2000.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Artem Koutchine wrote: > > When installing FreeBSD 3.3-R from ftp the sysinstall shows > "Starting emergency holo..... on VTY4" > and hangs for about 5 minutes, then starts installing. The emergency holographic shell is normal for any install that I've done. > What causes the delay and how to avoid it? The machine probably isn't hanging, it's gathering information. Are you installing over a modem? That could explain why it's taking time. I've installed many times, never over ftp, but from the cdrom, and it does take some time at that stage in the install. > The PC is quite old AMD-K5-100, 16MB SIMMs (2x8), > IDE drive (WD 21200), NE2000 compatible (no name one). -- R Joseph Wright I was getting out of a...I believe I was getting out of something. Bill Callahan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message