From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 11 9:36:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F8037B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 09:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sm11.texas.rr.com (sm11.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28A343E70 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 09:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from foxbsd@gristle.to) Received: from oct.gristle.to (cs242759-195.austin.rr.com [24.27.59.195]) by sm11.texas.rr.com (8.12.1/8.12.0.Beta16) with ESMTP id g7BGYbUm015018; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:34:37 -0500 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20020811113016.00a9b7d0@pop-server.austin.rr.com> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:35:13 -0500 To: "Eric B." From: Fox Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbie Help Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:30 AM 8/11/02 -0400, Joshua Lee wrote: >On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:22:25 -0400 >"Eric B." 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message