Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 01:16:02 -0500 From: Eddie White <ewhite@ms1.nwla.com> To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install dies Message-ID: <199705250616.BAA01887@ms1.nwla.com>
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we tried giving it a full drive to a partial drive with a win95/fat partition. we last tried giving bsd the full drive and selected novice mode, which set all the partition settings for us (this is what we were used to seeing under at&t 3.x for the 3b.) it didn't seem to make any diff. it kept stopping in the same place of the install. At 05:28 PM 5/24/97 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 24 May 1997, Eddie White wrote: > >are you giving yourself enough room in you partitions for what you're >loading? what is your debug output? ttyv1 ... > >> when i posted my first message, we were dog tired and so maybe i didn't >> leave enough info. >> >> trying to install fbsd 2.1.5 (i bought the cd and never used it) on a >> gateway 2000, 486dx2, western dig ide drive (520m) and 16m ram. >> >> during the install we loaded win95 just to test the hardware; all worked ok. >> >> we built the boot floppy. the box boots and we can go through all the disk >> partition stuff (novice mode, we come from at&t 3B world). when we commit >> to the install, it says its loading drivers, etc. to the hard drive. we >> then get a window talking about copying /documentation and it hangs with 1%. >> we see a burst of activity on the cd, a burst of activity on the hd, and >> that's it. >> >> we have tried different partion settings, with and without win95; the same >> result. >> >> anyone got any ideas? i rule out a hardware problem since win95 loads and >> runs fine. >> >> thanks, >> eddie >> >> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
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