Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:07:00 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Omar Gadir" <ogadir@auco.com> Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <199809232207.SAA00087@laker.net>
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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:35:52 -0700, Omar Gadir wrote: >I am using the following hardware configuration: > >1- AMD-K6 2 300 Processor >2- 8x64 64MB SDRAM PC100 >3- Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI >4- IBM 4.3 DCAS-34330, 4.3 GByte disk >5- Diamond Stealth 4000 4MB AGP >6- Sound Blaster 16 PnP 3D >7- FIC Rockwell 56 W/Voice PCI >8- 32X IDE CDROM >9- 1.44 Floppy Nice system, dude... >I decided to install FreeBSD using the CDROM. DOS is not installed in the >system. I did not modify >BIOS, because the adaptec card is intelligent. It makes the required >geometry modifications to >the SCSI disk. Please note that the size of the SCSI disk in BIOS is set to > > I gigabyte. > I partitioned the disk and I selected "A" to use the entire disk. The I >labelled the disk and I proceeded >to install FreeBSD. The system always hangs while installing software in >root. I tried to configure the kernel, >but the problem persisted. Did you switch to virtual console 2 (ttyv1, you get there with Alt-F2). On that console, there is a "debug" session that shows all the file copying, and such. Sometimes during installs, the system is actually busy but quiet on ttyv0. Others may have more helpful info, I just wanted to make sure you knew about the debug session on ttyv1. Good luck... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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