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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:43:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To:        "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Very slow install from CDROM
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208131941001.76079-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020813050305775.AAA349@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>

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> 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


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