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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2000 15:10:13 +1000
From:      "Richard Grace" <rgrace@itworks.com.au>
To:        "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@versys.net>, "Sergey Perfiliev" <secure21@bellatlantic.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: FreeBsd Install problems
Message-ID:  <NDBBILBEBIHJBLOEIKKCEEMKCGAA.rgrace@itworks.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <390FB20C.868BA6DC@versys.net>

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> > 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.



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