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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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