From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 11:43:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03294 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ug2.plk.af.mil (ug2.plk.af.mil [129.238.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03259 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:43:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbalder@unm.edu) Received: from alderd.plk.af.mil (pc-da0019.plk.af.mil [129.238.34.218]) by ug2.plk.af.mil (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA12335 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:43:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980115124443.006944c8@unm.edu> X-Sender: dbalder@unm.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:44:43 -0700 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "David B. Alder" Subject: HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I'm about to pull out my hair. I've tried to install 5 different versions of Linux from three different companies on my machine. I know you can't help me with that, but I've also tried to install 2 different versions of FreeBSD, 2.1.5 and 2.2.5. I've tried all 7 versions multiple times each. Varying the parameters each time. None of which installed completely. They all lock-up partially through the installation process. The FreeBSD versions both lock-up during the ports part of the installation. Generally after about 3 to 5 minutes through. The funny thing is, that I had installed 2.2.5 a while back, but I had the same problems. One time it didn't lock up until the end, so I had installed enough of the OS to boot it and configure. I have a 486 DX4-100 with a 3.2GB and a 1.2GB drive. I also have a Goldstar 16X cdrom. All of these items are detected when the setup is loading from floppy. Do you have any advice? What is going on? David Alder