From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 0:27:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (bitmcnit.bryansk.ru [195.239.213.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8305D14FA3 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 00:26:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by server.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id LAA20943 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:17:26 +0300 Received: (from alex@localhost) by kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA00821 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:16:49 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from alex) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:16:49 +0300 From: Alex Kapranoff To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.x installation problem Message-ID: <19991202111649.A275@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good day everyone. I'm a cs student. We have had a FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE box for a year in our laboratory. It worked fine. Some days ago we decided to upgrade it to a 3.3-RELEASE. The machine is a p100/8mb/500mb with a isa realtek nic. No CD drive so we install from local ftp. Everythings goes fine up to the moment when setup starts to download distros. It says "1024 bytes downloaded" and hangs the poor box. It seems to be a hardware problem, so we changed the memory, the hdd and the nic(to pci) - same results. Then we tried to install 3.1-RELEASE (same results) and even RH 5.2 Linux (same). The strange thing is that 3.0-RELEASE and 2.2.8-RELEASE still install quickly and effortlessly and work fine under loads (we tried to host two quake and one quakeworld server simultanously - swaps loudly but works!) Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. I'm not subscribed to the list so please group-reply. -- Alex Kapranoff, 2:50/383.20@fidonet, Voice: +7(0832)791845. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message