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To: Eli <elijah@OmniSoft.KillerLabs.com>
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Subject: Re: hardware problems..
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On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Eli wrote:

> A friend of mine is having problems installing freebsd.. the last distro
> he successfully installed was 2.1.5.. but now when he tries to install, it
> hangs just before sysinstall... he's tried a few different snap distros,
> and 2.2.5, etc.. they all hang just before sysinstall..  this is a rough
> idea of his hardware config...

  This doesn't belong on the current list.

  When booting the boot floppy, using the kernel configurator, and disable
all unneeded devices.

Tom