From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 23 23:05:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA09199 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 23:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.nwla.com (root@NS.NWLA.COM [207.22.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA09194 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 23:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dial1.nwla.com (dial1.nwla.com [207.22.207.20]) by ms1.nwla.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA19925 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 01:05:25 -0500 Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 01:05:25 -0500 Message-Id: <199705240605.BAA19925@ms1.nwla.com> X-Sender: ewhite@ms1.nwla.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: Eddie White Subject: install dies Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk when i posted my first message, we were dog tired and so maybe i didn't leave enough info. trying to install fbsd 2.1.5 (i bought the cd and never used it) on a gateway 2000, 486dx2, western dig ide drive (520m) and 16m ram. during the install we loaded win95 just to test the hardware; all worked ok. we built the boot floppy. the box boots and we can go through all the disk partition stuff (novice mode, we come from at&t 3B world). when we commit to the install, it says its loading drivers, etc. to the hard drive. we then get a window talking about copying /documentation and it hangs with 1%. we see a burst of activity on the cd, a burst of activity on the hd, and that's it. we have tried different partion settings, with and without win95; the same result. anyone got any ideas? i rule out a hardware problem since win95 loads and runs fine. thanks, eddie