Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 17:13:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sly <SLY@AOL.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't install 3.1 in 8 MB (was: 3.1-Release Install Hangs - ARRGH!) Message-ID: <19990501171317.O80561@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <372AAEDE.7964@AOL.COM>; from Sly on Sat, May 01, 1999 at 02:35:58AM -0500 References: <372AAEDE.7964@AOL.COM>
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On Saturday, 1 May 1999 at 2:35:58 -0500, Sly wrote: > 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. Hmm. We seem to have trouble with 8 MB memories. It should work, but there's ample evidence that it doesn't. I'd suggest that you wait until 3.3 (3.2 is just around the corner, and I'm pretty sure it won't get fixed before then). > (BTW, I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please reply directly to > me) You'd be better off subscribing. This has been discussed several times, and you could have saved yourself a week's work. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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