From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 10 21:22:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECBE37B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:22:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailrtr02.ntelos.net (mailrtr02.ntelos.net [216.12.0.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B15F43E42 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eburke@intelos.com) Received: from eric-7fab1xbbmk.intelos.com (ppp-62-18.access.ntelos.net [216.12.62.18]) by mailrtr02.ntelos.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g7B4MIu27442 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:22:18 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020811001808.00b1b898@mail.intelos.com> X-Sender: eburke@mail.intelos.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:22:25 -0400 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: "Eric B." Subject: FreeBSD Newbie Help Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 for the first time.. When I go to the kernel configuration to adjust all the conflicts 7 of them, I then correct and save the changes it then takes me to a screen that says Probing devices please wait this may take a while. How long is a while? I been waiting for almost 30 mins now. Does that mean something is wrong for it take that long? I know I corrected the conflicts. Any help would be great thanks. For your information I am trying to dual boot on WindowsXP Professional System Specs. 900Mhz AMD Athon ThunderBird Processor 256megs of DDR ram EliteGroup K7S5A Socket A mainboard Bios version American Megatrends Inc.07.00T MaXtor 30GIG 7200 rpms partition into 2 drives C and D. Creative 52x CD-ROM I just don't get it I tried to install it on my old crappy pc that is only a 1.3gig hardrive 192megs of ram and a 333mhz celeron processor it started the installation fine on this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message