From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 1: 2: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com (beta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.1.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0005537B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 01:02:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (zeta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 3C53B4991 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:01:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics, from userid 0) id BD9F748EB; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:02:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from eux220.sgp.st.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 98AAA1843 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:02:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from agx003.agr.st.com (agx003.agr.st.com [164.130.6.60]) by eux220.sgp.st.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA04294 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:01:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from neural8 (neural8.rdd.agr.st.com [164.130.35.109]) by agx003.agr.st.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA15003 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:01:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:02:43 +0100 (MET) From: Marco Bisio X-Sender: bisio@neural8 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation Problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm working with the 4.1 version of FreeBSD (August 2000) and I'm going to install it on my notebook pc. The configuration is as follow: 1) P54 150MHz 2) 32 MB Ram 3) 10x CDROM 4) Opti-Based chipset 5) 6GB HD, divided between Linux and FreeBSD; FreeBSD is located in a 2GB partition under the top (from 4 to 5.9MB + 0.1 MB swap area) My problem is as follow: the installation begin (I can't boot directly from the CD so I have built the kernel and the mfs floppy), I choose the partitions, the distribution I like to install, the Source media (Atapi CD-ROM); the installer start to work but it is unable to finish the installation; almost randomly the installer stops leaving the PC in a frozen state. 1) The CD I used is ok; I have installed it on other PC without any problems; 2) The Notebook HD/CD seems to work weel; I have installed Linux in another partition without any problems; 3) I tried to disable Block-Mode and 32 Bit-Mode; the installation seem to go better, but it stop anyway, in the same state; 4) I tried to re-masterize the CD-ROM, without any results; 5) The kernel configuration show 8 conflict at startup; they are due to the network driver I have removed; no conflict appear at the top of the screen; 6) The disk geometry is the same disk I see under Linux in LBA mode (730/255/63); 7) I tried to remove the PCMCIA cards from the slots, without any results; 8) the log windows does not write anything interesting; it froze during listing all the binaries that are going to be installed on the HD (for example, it stops sayng /bin/mv -> without any error) Can someone, please, help me ? Do you have any suggestion ? Thank you very much for your help. Marco Bisio ******************************************************************* * This message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons * ******************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Marco Bisio phone :(+39)-039-6036237 | | STMicroelectronics ___________ fax :(+39)-039-6036251 | | Central R & D - I.S.D.G. / __/_ __/ e-mail:marco.bisio@st.com | | Innovative Systems \ _ \ / / e-mail:mbisio@deis.unibo.it| | Design Group /____//_/ | | Via C. Olivetti 2 WWW :www-micro.deis.unibo | | 20041 Agrate Brianza (Milano) .it/~bisio/ | | Italy | ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message