From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 30 03:41:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22505 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 03:41:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from filk.iinet.net.au (filk.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA22498 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 03:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vaitken@iinet.net.au) Received: from server1 (reggae-05-124.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.72.124]) by filk.iinet.net.au (8.8.4/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA01064 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:41:39 +0800 Message-ID: <000701be03fa$81508e00$0fa9fea9@server1> From: "Vince Aitken" To: Subject: Help, about the (Probing Devices) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:43:23 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE043D.8E0A2BE0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE043D.8E0A2BE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, i have got a 486/SX 25 with 16 meg of ram and 320 meg of HD space, = and an Ethernet Card on the computer i wish to put FreeBSD on. I am = trying to install version 3.0 , and i have tried a few times, but each = time i get to the: Probing Devices, please wait (This can take a while)... Can u tell me approximately how long 'a while' means.=20 Thanx, Daniel Aitken (vaitken@iinet.net.au) ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE043D.8E0A2BE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi, i have got a 486/SX 25 with 16 = meg of ram=20 and 320 meg of HD space, and an Ethernet Card on the computer i wish to = put=20 FreeBSD on. I am trying to install version 3.0 , and i have tried a few = times,=20 but each time i get to the:

Probing Devices, please wait (This = can take a=20 while)...

Can u tell me approximately how long = 'a while'=20 means.

Thanx, Daniel Aitken=20 (vaitken@iinet.net.au)

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