Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:16:32 +0200 From: "bw.mail.lists" <bw.mail.lists@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, a@jenisch.at Subject: Re: Installation hangs during "Archive extraction" phase (9.1) Message-ID: <51F25A90.80900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130726100030.GB1302@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20130726100030.GB1302@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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On 7/26/2013 12:00 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > Upon trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a HP Proliant DL585G5 > installation freezes when it comes to the point "Archive Extraction" > while extracting "ports. > > To be specific, the system freezes while extracting ports.txz at 23% > with "Overal Progress" being 29%. You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as documented in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html): portsnap fetch portsnap extract > > First I thought about the installation medium, so I re-burned the > installation CD ("disc1"), tried the DVD-installation, even installing > over the network - the machine always freezes when it comes to archive > extraction. > > For the hardware part: > HP Proliant DL585G5 > 128GB RAM > 8 HDs a 146GB: two of them in Raid-1, the remainder Raid0 > 2x onboard LAN: (HP NC371i) > 2 addon NIC-cards with 2 ports each (HP NC360T) > > Harddisk has been set up with GPT, for the test "automatic > partitioning". > > Has anybody out there seen this type of problem? If yes, any known > cure/hint/??? > > Thanks much in advance for any clue, > -ewald > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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