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From: Fernando Astorga <fernando@cea.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation
To: 73664.2073@compuserve.com (Leonard W. Mah)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 04:33:41 -0800 (PST)
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <950331045452_73664.2073_DHR60-1@CompuServe.COM> from "Leonard W. Mah" at Mar 30, 95 11:54:52 pm
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Leonard W. Mah writes:
...
> right?  All of the smaller distributions installed without the SCSI timeout
> error.  Then, upon installing XFREE86, the checksums verified correctly I got
> the extracting, please wait message.  Nothing happened after that with no
> activity from the CD ROM drive or the slave drive.  I waited a good 10 minutes
> to be sure, and it just sat there doing nothing.  Is there another way to
> install XFREE86 that is not too painful?
> 
> I would have to say that other than this problem I am more impressed with
> FreeBSD than Linux, but as an ex Cal Bear I am a just a little biased.  Any help
> would be appreciated...and thanks for your time.
> 
> 				Leonard W. Mah 
> 

I had this same problem a few weeks ago.  Here's my original post, then
the helpful responses I got:

 2) When I was installing the XFree86-3.1 distribution, the CD-ROM
    hung forever and I had to start all over.  First I thought it was the
    size of it in combination with my slow controller, but when I tried 
    the src distribution (which is 160M vs 80M for XFree86), it worked fine.


From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
> Did you try switching to the second screen (Alt-F2)?  It has been an
> oversight in 2.0-Release (is it fixed meanwhile? Jordan?) that the
> XFree86 installation script didn't fit right into the sysinstall way
> of doing things, and simply asked its questions on its own tty (which
> happens to be ttyv1).

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
> Are you sure it wasn't just waiting for you over on ALT-F2?
> 
> This behavior has been changed for 2.1, but that's the way it worked in 2.0.
> 

Hope this helps.

Fernando Astorga   -   A current Cal Bear
fernando@cea.Berkeley.edu