Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:02:45 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Chris Simpson <csimpson@telocity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation issue... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208160901330.14223-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <002d01c24522$91812600$aa01010a@2k.amsurg.com>
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Chris Simpson wrote: > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:43:48 -0500 > From: Chris Simpson <csimpson@telocity.com> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Installation issue... > > 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.... > > 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: > > ADDING PACKAGE/ALL/cvsupit-3.1.tgz From acd0c > > Package cvsupit-3.1 read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1) > The only time I've ever had an install choke while waiting for pkg_add to return was with a bad CD burn. I re-burned, and re-installed without a hitch. Welcome to the list! > > 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, > > Chris > /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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