From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 11:25:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09559 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09543 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:21:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberte@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id UAA00566; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:21:07 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199801161921.UAA00566@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!! In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980115124443.006944c8@unm.edu> from "David B. Alder" at "Jan 15, 98 12:44:43 pm" To: dbalder@unm.edu (David B. Alder) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:21:07 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk It was David B. Alder who 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 What do you mean by `lock-up partially' ? Does NumLock still react ? > versions both lock-up during the ports part of the installation. Generally It sounds very much like a hardware problem. (May be something temperature related in the protected mode part.) I had a 486-board which would crash FreeBSD when still cold. After 3/4 h of running it would work fine. There were no problems under DOS, however. What type of board do you have ? Robert > 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 -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de