Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:34:09 -0000 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'rneswold@mcs.net'" <rneswold@mcs.net> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FTP install with 3.1-RELEASE hangs Message-ID: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B0269AE@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Hi Rich, I'm glad I'm not the only one then! Maybe it's to do with the amount of RAM. I only have 8MB in the machine I'm installing on. I know that the 3.1-RELEASE kernel is bigger, and that no swap file is used during install. I always thought that the system would completely crash if memory ran out, but sysinstall doesn't really crash, it just stops. Does anyone know how much RAM 3.1-RELEASE requires for install? Cheers, Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Neswold [SMTP:rneswold@mcs.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 9:19 PM > To: Bond, Jeffery > Subject: Re: FTP install with 3.1-RELEASE hangs > > If memory serves, didn't Bond, Jeffery say: > > I'm trying to install 3.1-RELEASE over an FTP connection on my small > > (ethernet) LAN, and the sysinstall program hangs part way through > installing > > the 'bin' distribution. I have repeated this many times, and the hang > occurs > > at different places through the 'bin' distribution every time. The thing > > doesn't lock solid. I can hit CTRL-C to abort and try again, but it > fails > > again and again. When I do hit CTRL-C, I get an error something like > "write > > fail: wrote -1 bytes of 1024". The HD is NOT full by the way! I've > checked! > > This has happened to me, too. Last week I tried to install 3.1 on a laptop > and it kept hanging at the beginning of the 'bin' distribution. I ended up > installing 2.2.8 on it. > > -- > Rich > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rich Neswold | PGP: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 > rneswold@mcs.net | F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 > http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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