From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 22:14:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690EA16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:14:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout.ywave.com (mailout.ywave.com [12.144.140.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770E543FB1 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ed@braatens.org) Received: from homepc.braatens.org (dsl1021.ywave.com [12.41.104.21]) by mailout.ywave.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D213E41C9; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from homepc.braatens.org (localhost.braatens.org [127.0.0.1]) by homepc.braatens.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9V6Efg7069826; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:14:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ed@homepc.braatens.org) Received: (from ed@localhost) by homepc.braatens.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h9V6EZ2W069825; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:14:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:14:35 -0800 From: Ed To: Keith.Fortenbach@mail.uh.edu Message-ID: <20031031061435.GA69736@homepc.braatens.org> References: <482006602.1067548846966.JavaMail.root@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <482006602.1067548846966.JavaMail.root@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just curious, how large is FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:14:44 -0000 --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Keith, Congrats on your new OS! Did you know that you can press "Alt-F2" to see some debug output during the install? "Alt-F2" changes to the second of the virtual consoles, "Alt-F1" gets you back to the first console, "Alt-F3"=20 to the third, etc. I tried this once on the install of an earlier release = of FreeBSD (4.x) that was "hanging" as you described, and it turned out that o= ne of the ports I was trying to install had brought everything to a halt waiting from some user input... When I switched to the virtual terminal where it was waiting for this input and gave it the answer it was looking for the install continued without any more "hangs". If you are simply=20 running out of disk space, the debug output or the installer should be telling you "out-of-disk-space" error messages. =20 Am 30.10.2003 um 15:20:46 -0600, hat Keith.Fortenbach@mail.uh.edu geschrieb= en: > I just purchased FreeBSD 5.1 and got it installed sucessfully-YEAH!- > yesterday. I am a "new newbie" with no previous experience with UNIX,=20 > so I feel this is a wonderful accomplishment. I ran accross one problem,= =20 > though. Every time I installed ALL, the installation froze after about= =20 > 30 minutes. I tried this about 8 times and realized that every time it= =20 > froze on the exact same place. I eventually came to the conclusion that= =20 > ALL could not fit on my hard drive (4Gb total) and installed the USER=20 > configuration with the X thing and only KDE packages and the installation= =20 > was successful. So was my conclusion correct? Do I need a larger=20 > harddrive? Is 4Gb not enough for ALL? How big is FreeBSD anyway? --=20 Ed Braaten http://braatens.org/ed/ --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/of3Ky28aAE4M6ZwRAgw3AKDFU4+D/4zrhN2VDLrbM8JqRdeBFgCdH3J9 wVHL+kRcyNLzv87B9TQjZI8= =mFaw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--