Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:50:54 -0600 From: Irwan Hadi <irwanhadi@phxby.engr.usu.edu> To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Message-ID: <20020814065054.GD11763@phxby.com> In-Reply-To: <20020814055835918.AAA345@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208131941001.76079-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20020814055835918.AAA345@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > On 13 Aug 2002 at 19:43, Rick Hamell boldly uttered: > > > > 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. :) > > > Not particularly likely, given that I've had dozens of PC's through > here and never something like this, but thanks for the idea. My suggestion is check your CD-ROM, who created it ? Is it the cheap unbranded one or branded one like Sony, Creative ? I got bad experience with cheap unbranded CD-ROM drive, where I got exactly the same problem like you are experiencing right now. When I changed my CD-ROM Drive to Creative it works better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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