From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 07:38:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA06185 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.it.luc.edu (agugalo@orion.it.luc.edu [147.126.240.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA06180 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (agugalo@localhost) by orion.it.luc.edu (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA133407 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:38:08 -0600 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:38:08 -0600 (CST) From: Andrew Gugalo To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.1.5, 2.1.6 crash install Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been trying to install FreeBSD on two different PCs since version 1, CDROM Dec. 1993, to no avail. At the same time I have used many versions of Linux on the same two machines, so I suspect that my ignorance is not the only problem. I have a Pentium Gateway with hardware that claims to be supported by FreeBSD, except for IDE CDROM, so I try to install from a DOS partition. Booting from the installation boot disk I eliminated all the drivers for devices I don't have and needed to correct only the parameters for my SMC ethernet card, which I don't think is important for installation anyway. I created a 600M primary DOS partition and copied all the files from CDROM there. The installation process went partially through but stopped at the following screen: [Progress] Extracting slib into /usr/src directory... 25% 290816 bytes read from slib dist, chunk 2 of 8@3.1 KB/sec I tried the whole thing again and exactly the same thing happened again. I was trying to install the 207 Meg I think developers version. In the past I experienced crashes during installation of early SLS Linux distributions and later while trying to install Red Hat Linux Picasso version. In both cases it turned out not to be an operator error, but faulty distribution. They were however crashing at random times during attempted installation. FreeBSD crashed twice at exactly the same screen! FreeBSD detected the same parameters of my 1.6G Western Digital IDE HD as are listed on the drive itself: 3148 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors. I would appreciated any clues on what might be causing this behaviour.