Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 05:18:50 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Jason Lewicki <jtodd@triax.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation Message-ID: <19980317051849.27442@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980316100228.26071N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 10:02:49AM -0800 References: <19980316095256.24051@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980316100228.26071N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 10:02:49AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Sue Blake wrote:
>
> > > The system's gotten stuck looking for something. If you have a Zip drive,
> > > disconnect it; this seems to be the showstopper for more recent versions.
> > > Hopefully this will end with the inclusion of a Zip driver in the next
> > > release.
> >
> > Got any other hints? I'm having the same problem as Jason, using a 386 which
> > used to run FreeBSD (same version, 2.2.2) but has since had its SCSI
> > controller and FreeBSD disk and second I/O card removed, leaving the DOS
> > IDE. No other hardware has been changed, and I've tried disabling everything
> > nonessential in UserConfig (eventually all of Network and Communications) in
> > case there was unseen problems. No change. The same installation diskette
> > has been used successfully on another machine.
>
> Hit ALT-F2 and report what you see; it may indicate what device it's
> having trouble looking for.
DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success)
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Regards,
-*Sue*-
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