From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 21:55:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26893 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:55:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26885 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:55:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01614; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:55:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John David Galt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install hangs In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19980130052227.33170600@gate1.tomatoweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, John David Galt wrote: > I'm trying to set up a new standalone FreeBSD 2.2.5 system, from the November > CD-ROMs, using a boot floppy as per the manual. The floppy boots up, I get > through UserConfig, and all the devices are displayed correctly (except of course > COM3 and COM4). Then the system displays the line > > /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 > > , clears the screen, and hangs! (I can then view the device output by hitting Scroll > Lock and PageUp, but other than that, nothing happens even if I wait 10 minutes.) Try setting flags 0x7 on the npx0 device. This is reported to cure some problems of this type. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major