From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 21:15:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F6E16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:15:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmxpita.excite.com (nn2.excitenetwork.com [207.159.120.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829EA43FDF for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:15:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sundog2000@excite.com) Received: by xmxpita.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3177413409; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:15:54 -0500 (EST) To: jez.hancock@munk.nu Received: from [68.50.51.235] by xprdmailfe5.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:15:54 EST X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: ID = c8ce77626d96cf702829a9802c577231 From: "Nick P." MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: sundog2000@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20031112051554.3177413409@xmxpita.excite.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:15:54 -0500 (EST) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sundog2000@excite.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:15:55 -0000 Jez, >Have you checked the integrity of the installation CD you're >trying to install from? It could be that it's corrupted and >causing problems. I did check the MD5 checksums -- but in addition to the CD install, I also tried a variety of other install methods - booting to CD and doing FTP install, booting to floppy and installing on a variety of different FTP servers. >The installation process is usually fairly painless and >generally very fast - as less than 5 minutes for a minimal >install on an amd athlon 2000. >Certainly shouldn't be taking as long as you mention :( Unfortunately, not painless or fast for me. :-( >Presumably you've read the handbook as well: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.>ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html I've looked there and have become quite intimate with the menus it documents. I like to think I could go through the install options blind-folded at this point. :-) >if you know enough to use Google you no doubt stumbled across >the handbook pretty early on :=) Googling has brought to my attention that many other people have had this problem, and also have not seemed to have found answers, as I alluded to in the original post. One found that when switching from the CD to FTP install it worked; this did not work for me. Thanks for your input. -Nick -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!