From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 23 7:10: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0AD14D3B for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id PAA22606 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:04:50 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA10796 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:02:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA27359 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:46:41 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA24963; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:54:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37987567.1B3B896C@alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:00:07 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions Subject: Re: Hung install on a Compaq machine References: <379825F6.AC698BCC@alcatel.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I love to make my own follow-ups ;-(( False alarm : the CD was buggy TfH Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Hello, > > I've found once more what Compaq stands for (Compatibility and Quality). > > I'm trying to install 3.2-Release on a brand new Compaq machine (Desqpro > EB/SP series, with a P-III/450 and 4 3C900 NICs). > > When booting from the CDROM, the install program stays hung in the > "probing devices" phase. The debug console prints that all needed > devices (xl0 to xl3, the CD-ROM drive, the floppy, both serial ports, > and two DOS slices on the hard disk (wd0s1 and wd0s2 - as a matter of > fact, there are four FAT partitions on the disk : 3 times 2 Gigs and a > partition to store specific diagnostic and BIOS tools) > > I'll make another attempt with just downloaded -Stable boot floppies > (0721 snapshot). > > In the meantime, if anybody has a clue ... > > TfH > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message