From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 17:27:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f211.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE88F37B4CF for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:27:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:27:14 -0800 Received: from 24.15.178.198 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 01:27:14 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.15.178.198] From: "Wayne Leriche" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Install problem Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 01:27:14 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Nov 2000 01:27:14.0745 (UTC) FILETIME=[D77BB290:01C0567E] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG can anyone shed some light on why my Free BSD won't install? I keep getting to the point where is is building the root directory - Blue screen says "making a new root filesystem on /dev/rad2s1a" then the hard drive just hangs (light is lit) for hours. the PC is an intel Celeron 333 with 98Mb Ram. Can anyone help, this is a CD install from the "BSD Power pak" ver 4.0 dated March 2000 thanks Wleriche@hotmail.com _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message