From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 18:41:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09E337B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E52443E6E for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:41:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1F3AE18F9; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAE318F8; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:43:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: "Philip J. Koenig" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM In-Reply-To: <20020813050305775.AAA349@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Something is very strange here beyond the speed issue, because the > install fails in various ways eventually anyway. Either it gets some > kind of coredump, or says "can't copy kernel to /" or somesuch, and > there appears to be plenty of disk space. Hmm... may be a long shot in your case, but I've had the exact same problem. The ONLY thing I can trace it down to is an overloaded circuit in the electrical main. (Plus it's not grounded properly, Late 50's construction.) Anyways, I moved the computer into a different part of the house, finished the install up and moved it back in to my computer room. Works fine. I just can't power on more then 5 servers & a swtich at the same time in this room. :) > Knowing Compaq, wouldn't surprise me if they had some kind of weird > disk controller on there that doesn't act like anyone else's. > > However due to the various things that have been discussed vis-a-vis > the ATA driver over the last couple of months, I was just initially > wondering if it was related to that. It's also possibly an IRQ conflict. Possibly your BIOS is set to PNP OS? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message