From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 12:32:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hrn.ascend.com (mail.hrn.ascend.com [149.52.1.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C88D14E5C for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:32:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomas@hrn.ascend.com) Received: from [149.52.12.137] (bitbucket.eng.hrn.ascend.com [149.52.12.137]) by mail.hrn.ascend.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28943 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:31:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199908191931.PAA28943@mail.hrn.ascend.com> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:30:33 -0500 Subject: Reboot during install From: "Thomas Inskip" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE onto a Gateway Pentium Pro box with 128M of RAM, an Adapted 2940 PCI SCSI controller, and an S3V video card. I'm installing onto a separate partition on a drive already containing NT, and which uses System Commander (I've tried this configuration before with 2.2.8 with no problems). I configure the kernel, partition the drive, label the partitions, and do a custom installation. Everything seems to go well until it comes to decompressing the ports packages, which causes a lot of disk activity, during which the machine just reboots, leaving me with an invalid installation (no kernel for one thing). Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message