Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:47:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew Gugalo <agugalo@orion.it.luc.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5, 2.1.6 crash install Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970129184414.25390A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.95.970129092035.116041A-100000@orion.it.luc.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Andrew Gugalo wrote: > 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. Wow...that CD is probably worth money. > 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: I assume you followed the instructions in INSTALL.TXT on how to arrange the directories. > [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. At this point, hit ALT-F2 and record what you see. How long do you give it before you consider it trashed? It could be hanging up on a big piece of source. This is extracting all of the sources for FreeBSD -- is this what you really want? You might try installing something more basic, like 'user' or custom-selecting the distributions to get what you want. If this is a first-time install, ry clean-installing, deleting the FreeBSD slice with FDISK and starting completely from scratch. If this is an upgrade, then you're going the wrong way; use the 'upgrade' option instead. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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