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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:35:13 -0500
From:      Fox <foxbsd@gristle.to>
To:        "Eric B." <eburke@intelos.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Newbie Help
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.0.20020811113016.00a9b7d0@pop-server.austin.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020811023027.12a1072c.yid@softhome.net>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020811001808.00b1b898@mail.intelos.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020811001808.00b1b898@mail.intelos.com>

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At 02:30 AM 8/11/02 -0400, Joshua Lee wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:22:25 -0400
>"Eric B." <eburke@intelos.com> wrote:
>
> > Probing
> > devices  please wait this may take a while. How long is a while? I
> > been waiting for almost 30 mins now. Does that mean something is wrong
>
>Probably so. I had this problem until I disabled a built-in NIC. If that 
>doesn't work try disabling or removing other hardware one by one until you 
>find out what's confusing the installer.

I was having similar trouble, and changed my bios. As far as I could tell 
FreeBSD does not like the "PnP OS" enabled in the bios. Maybe a more 
experienced FreeBSDer could could confirm this.





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