From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 22: 8:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF16F37B574 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 22:08:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrace@itworks.com.au) Received: (qmail 70153 invoked from network); 3 May 2000 05:07:52 -0000 Received: from maybe.itworks.com.au (203.36.209.235) by iserver.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 3 May 2000 05:07:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 56223 invoked from network); 3 May 2000 05:07:52 -0000 Received: from dhcp8.itworks.com.au (HELO paranoia) (203.36.209.217) by maybe.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 3 May 2000 05:07:52 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Richard Grace" To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" , "Sergey Perfiliev" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: FreeBsd Install problems Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:10:13 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <390FB20C.868BA6DC@versys.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have since tried "a floppy install 3 times! (many hours > each)" It goes up > > to 99% and says that it cannot recognize the drive! I have seen this with some 486-based machines with power management. They cause the drive to go to sleep, and FreeBSD is not able to wake the drive up. I fixed this by disabling hardware power management. Richard Grace ITworks Consulting Pty. Ltd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message