Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 02:40:44 -0500 From: Brian and Suzan <riff_one@athenet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.1-Release Install Hangs - ARRGH! (corrected reply to address) Message-ID: <372AAFFC.5365@athenet.net>
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Sorry for the incorrect email address in previous header Ok I have been trying for a week to get my FBSD box up and running again. I decided to upgrade (complete reinstall) from a 2.2.? version. The process always hangs or freezes when it gets to the point where it is "extracting bin into / directory..." It doesn't appear to have any issues with detecting hardware and the like...after all an eralier release was running fine on this box. I've tried the install via ftp over my home lan and I've also dug a HD out of my *cough* win95 box to try an install off a dos partition. It always hangs during the extraction process. Sometimes sysinstall was able to get half way through and other times it only got the first bin.inf file before it hung. When I did the dos partition install it didn't appear to get any files. I am unable to get any response from a ctrl-c or the like after it hangs. I've done a bunch of reading on deja and the mailing list archives to try to find a solution, but didn't have any luck. I've found other folks talking about a similar problem but none of the discussion led to a solution for me. There has even been a bug report of a similar issue. The box I'm installing to is an old 386 with 8mb. Any help will be apreciated. (BTW, I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please reply directly to me) Brian riff_one@athenet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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