From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 19 14:39:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CCEE37B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8240 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Sep 2000 21:39:09 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:39:09 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: robert smith Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problem Message-ID: <20000919173909.C7694@numachi.com> References: <002e01c02280$17555340$979b68d5@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <002e01c02280$17555340$979b68d5@default>; from psyfybre@gmx.net on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:24:47PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:24:47PM +0100, robert smith wrote: > hello, allow me to introduce myself. > > i regard myself to be a well experienced computer user using many platforms. > > yet, when i tried to install freebsd, i found that i cannot, since just past the setupx configuration, the cpu halts. or gets stuck in a cyclic loop, where i am unable to do anything, and the monitor seems to get itself into an unreachable mode, this is just after the x-setup, so when the computer goes back to the installation menus, but i dont get a chance to see any of them. My experience in installing FreeBSD: - Do a minimal install first, and reboot the machine. Make sure you use the 'Options' menu to set debugging to 'yes'. This will assure: - that your installation media is OK. - that you don't have a messed up partition table, or an unbootable partition. - that core hardware (memeory, CPU. hard drive, etc.) works adequately. (memory failures can be a bit magical.) - Even better, do said minimal install via a serial port, from another machine running 'script'. This give a recorded log of your installation process, as well as any messages generated during the reboot. Everything after this point is stuff to be added on, and likely should be done in stages. (Setting a root password, installing packages/distributions/etc.) I've personally never tried to set up X from FreeBSD's installation disks. They just invoke utilities that come with the X distribution. Feel free to use the install disks to install the X distribution, but use the command-line tools to configure X. That way, you can use the man pages for the utilities to see what they are doing, and how they report errors. BTW - I suspect this should have gone to -questions... Good luck... > any assisatnce is welcome. > > www: www.mp34me.org > email: psyfybre@gmx.net > icq uin: 21156382 -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message