From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 16:59:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.toad.net (hermes.toad.net [162.33.130.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717D737B408 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bears (jeremy@core18d41.dynamic-dialup.toad.net [162.33.188.41]) by hermes.toad.net (8.11.2/8.11.0) with SMTP id f84NxG620014 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:59:17 -0400 Received: by bears (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:56:25 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Needing help with installation... From: Jeremy Date: 05 Sep 2001 19:56:25 -0500 Message-ID: <87y9nt6ssm.fsf@yahoo.com> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to install 4.3 on my computer, but soon after the initial kernel configuration (right when the blue screen comes up and says that it's detecting hardware) everything locks up. Nothing will respond. I can't even switch out to any virtual terminals. I thought at first it was just taking a while to detect my hardware, so I let it sit for about an hour and a half the first time, but nothing happened. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be going on? Are there any known problems of the install process locking up like this? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, especially since I've heard such great things about FreeBSD and I'd love to have a chance to test it out against the Debian Linux I now use. Thanks, Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message