Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:33:10 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "David B. Alder" <dbalder@unm.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!! Message-ID: <19980116013310.22751.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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David, during the install process Terminal/screen 1 is used as the console. So at any point while you are in sysinstall if you hit ALT+F1 you'll see what sysinstall is actually doing (or so) and what the success/failure messages are. If you post those we can make more guesses as to what's wgong :-) Rudy ---"Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > David, > you may have abd memory simms/chips. > > how much memory do you have? > if you have more than 16MB, try removing half and installing again. > you need 8MB to install--you may be able to get by with only > 5MB during the install, but living with 5MB is unspeakable. > jmb > > David B. Alder wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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