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Subject: Re: Install problem on AS200 4/166
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rupp@coredump.at writes:
 > >  > If you mean "for text output", I don't understand. When I boot
 > >  > into the installation, it works, the kernel boots, and it comes to
 > >  > copying files. If I could not use TGA in any case, it should not work
 > >  > that far - should it?
 > > 
 > > It depends what you mean by "copying files"  
 > 
 > After all preliminary setup is done, the setup program starts to
 > retrieve the distribution sets, extracts them and writes the actual
 > files onto the disk. Sometime during this process, usually after
 > several minutes, and never at the same point, the machine freezes.
 > 
 > It's like the input was suddenly shut of with a valve.
 > "extracting file - extracting file - ex..[dead]"
 > 
 > > Have you actually done 'set console serial' at the >>> prompt, booted
 > > FreeBSD, and started the installation purely on the serial console?
 > Yes, then power cylce, and yes, purely on the serial console.

Sorry, then.  I have no clue.  Sounds like a hardware problem.

Drew

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