Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 00:41:46 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: george@vagner.com, roddierod@yahoo.com, gibbons@cityline.ru Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Slow pkg install in v4.4, was: !!!!! ERROR IN FREEBSD 4.4RELEASES !!!!! Message-ID: <F123z6QEy0Dll7fnp3e0000134f@hotmail.com>
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This is a 'Me too' post. I wrote a 4.4 ISO and installed this and that, and after a few packages were installed, the installer begain taking a very long time to install the packages. The installer displays the speed at which data is being read from the disk. After a while, it said around "940 bytes/sec" IIRC. It was about right. :-) Oddly, the Linux binary package installed very fast. This has happened with all installs that I have ever done of 4.4 from several CDs. I've ordered a pressed copy of 4.5, so we'll see what happens there. My applicable configurations: - Athlon classic 500 on an AMD750 chipset based mobo. - Dual AthlonMP on Tyan TigerMP mobo. - Both systems: Plextor PX40TSW 40x wide Ultra-SCSI CD-ROM, one on an Adaptec 2940UW and one on an Adaptec 29160. - One system has a Maxtor DM+ hard drive, IDE, connected to the AMD750 southbridge IDE controller. - The other system has a Quantum/Maxtor Atlas 10K-III U160SCSI drive connected to the 29160 controller. I remember trying the install with a generic IDE drive, but uselessly I can't remember what the results were. Hopefully this has been fixed in 4.5, presuming it's a FreeBSD problem in the first place, so that we don't need to worry about it. :-) >that wierd I had same problem, it seems like it is doing something >during the package adds but just has a blue screen with nothing on it >then pops up "package whatever was installed successfully" >maybe 4 or 5 minutes for each package. > >I left it sit all afternoon and it did finish. > >lets get a hardware list from you people and see if we have something in >common. > > >Here is the system config I had this problem on. > >Abit BX6 with latest rev bios and P2 400Mhz, Adaptec 2940 U2W, Seagate >9 gig LVD 8ms. , Voodoo 3d 16 meg AGP, PNP soundblaster 16, >Intel FXP 100mb network card. Plextor ancient 4x4x? cd-r writer only, >Plextor >40x plain cd-rom on 50 pin bus with writer. > >nothing special here. > >the cd-r and cd-rom have just been updated via flash to latest revs >but no change they stil are slow but seem to outlast anything else i got >even my yamaha. > >just my $.02 > >anything in common with you guys? > > > > >On Tuesday 05 February 2002 06:30 pm, Rod Person wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:54:34 +0300 > > > > "Mozgi_na_stene" <gibbons@cityline.ru> wrote: > > > At me FreeBSD 4.4 RELEASES. At installation of packages there is such > > > thing: I want to establish all packages what is on a disk, I allocate > > > them, I press to establish. The pacts begin to be established, all is > > > good, but passes some time and the packages begin to be established on > > > very long time; one package will be established, then screen becomes > > > empty (dark blue background), will pass 1.5 hours the following >package > > > begins to be established, and so up to the end. For example: I > > > established 35 packages - 5 hours. > > > > > > Why so the packages are long established. > > > > If i understand what you are saying that; > > > > using /stand/sysinstall you selected 35 packages to install. > > when you begin the install process it installed one package then the >was > > a long pause 10 minutes or so maybe longer. > > But everything does install it just takes forever. > > > > If that's what your saying I had the same exact problem with 4.4 (but >only > > disk 1). I assumed that it was the fact that I had burned the iso myself > > and something had gone wrong - what I done know. But I recently had the > > same problem with 4.5 disk 1, so I assumed it was my machine in that I > > have a SCSI card that I just installed and since that time my machine >has > > been slow on boot and such, but still works fine. > > > > I don't have an answer for you just letting it be know that your not the > > only one. > > > > Rod > > > > roddierod@yahoo.com > > > > "I'm a character in a world gone wrong!" > > - Entombed - Returning to Madness > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >Everything is an original.... >2 things cant exist in the same place at the same time. >So copy machines only make originals. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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