From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 5:43:59 2002 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 5563737B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 05:43:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c003.snv.cp.net (h015.c003.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC2D843E86 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 05:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csimpson@telocity.com) Received: (cpmta 8872 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2002 05:43:49 -0700 Received: from 207.65.248.2 (HELO Simpsonc3829) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.32.229) with SMTP; 16 Aug 2002 05:43:49 -0700 X-Sent: 16 Aug 2002 12:43:49 GMT Message-ID: <002d01c24522$91812600$aa01010a@2k.amsurg.com> From: "Chris Simpson" To: Subject: Installation issue... Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:43:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002A_01C244F8.A8031E30" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C244F8.A8031E30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello! New guy on the list here... At home I'm installing FreeBSD on my desktop (a Dell Dimension XPS T500) = via CDROM. It's got a 500MHz processor, 6GB hard drive, 384 MB RAM, an = Diamond Viper V770 video card with 16MB RAM, a Sound Blaster Live Value = sound card, and a Netgear FA310 NIC....=20 ANYWAY, I get to the point where it actually installs the packages, and = then it seems to lock up when it's installing cvsupit-3.1. There's no = error message, just this:=20 ADDING PACKAGE/ALL/cvsupit-3.1.tgz From acd0c=20 Package cvsupit-3.1 read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1)=20 That sounds like it would be a normal message, but in 2 attempts at = install, I've gotten the same thing. Is that a NIC problem? Is it trying = to go to the internet to do something, or is it just maybe a bad CD = burn?Now, at hardware discovery it didn't find the exact module for my = NIC, but I didn't see anywhere in the handbook where it said you had to = have that driver done right then. So, I let it go...It let me put in my = IP information without any problems later, so I thought it would be = working fine. One thing that I noticed was a little strange was that = when setting up the NIC, it asked me for my local DNS server, and I = don't have one of those, so I gave it 198.6.1.5 (a UU Net server, if I'm = not mistaken) as a DNS server. Could that cause the problem? I'm totally = new to *BSD and a pretty big newbie to *nix in general, so any help = would be appreciated! Thanks,=20 Chris ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C244F8.A8031E30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello! New guy on the list=20 here...

At home I'm installing FreeBSD on my desktop (a Dell Dimension XPS = T500)=20 via CDROM. It's got a 500MHz processor, 6GB hard drive, 384 MB RAM, an = Diamond=20 Viper V770 video card with 16MB RAM, a Sound Blaster Live Value sound = card, and=20 a Netgear FA310 NIC....

ANYWAY, I get to the point where it = actually=20 installs the packages, and then it seems to lock up when it's installing = cvsupit-3.1. There's no error message, just this:

ADDING=20 PACKAGE/ALL/cvsupit-3.1.tgz From acd0c

Package cvsupit-3.1 read=20 successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1)

That sounds like it = would be a=20 normal message, but in 2 attempts at install, I've gotten the same = thing. Is=20 that a NIC problem? Is it trying to go to the internet to do something, = or is it=20 just maybe a bad CD burn?Now, at hardware discovery it didn't find the = exact=20 module for my NIC, but I didn't see anywhere in the handbook where it = said you=20 had to have that driver done right then. So, I let it go...It let me put = in my=20 IP information without any problems later, so I thought it would be = working=20 fine. One thing that I noticed was a little strange was that when = setting up the=20 NIC, it asked me for my local DNS server, and I don't have one of those, = so I=20 gave it 198.6.1.5 (a UU Net server, if I'm not mistaken) as a DNS = server. Could=20 that cause the problem? I'm totally new to *BSD and a pretty big newbie = to *nix=20 in general, so any help would be appreciated!

Thanks, =

Chris

------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C244F8.A8031E30-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message