From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 07:41:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E5416A4BF for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860E643FB1 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.24.175]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030820144157.CWKW15786.out005.verizon.net@mac.com>; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:41:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3F43889C.8080708@mac.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:41:32 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Collins References: <000801c366be$4a543d80$6401a8c0@babynt> In-Reply-To: <000801c366be$4a543d80$6401a8c0@babynt> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [68.237.24.175] at Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:41:47 -0500 cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd install X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:41:59 -0000 David Collins wrote: > "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... > > How long is "a while"? I have waited over 2 hours! Please use the freebsd-questions mailing list instead of docs for this kind of question. Anyway, to give you an answer, it should only be a few seconds: your machine may have crashed when probing the hardware. Make sure that BIOS "PNP OS" setting is set to "NO" and disable any hardware you don't need in the BIOS and in the FreeBSD initial config screen. If you still have problems, then provide more details (what version of FreeBSD, what hardware you have) to . Thanks, -- -Chuck