From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 13:20:42 2003 Return-Path: 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 7238A37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA41743F85 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike.donovan@rcn.com) Received: from 209-122-250-88.c3-0.nwt-ubr2.sbo-nwt.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.122.250.88] helo=UPSTAIRS) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 19450r-0002IQ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:20:41 -0400 Message-ID: <013301c30067$e8966df0$6401a8c0@UPSTAIRS> From: "Mike Donovan" To: Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:21:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: install is hanging X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 20:20:42 -0000 When trying to install Freebsd 4.6 via CD on my old Dell desktop it stalls on the "Probing port, please wait (this may take a while)..." window. Hitting alt -> F2 I see that the the system hangs each time at the line "DEBUG Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card0." The system is not a laptop. Any help is appreciated. The CDs with FreeBSD handbook cost me $70. I'd hate to find out it won't work on this system. The computer sytem: 200MHz Pentium MMX Mini Tower 64 MB ram Video card: Matrox Millenium PCI Video Board w/4 MB WRAM Hard Drive: 3.2GB EIDE hard drive Iomega Zip Drive CD Rom: 12-16x EIDE CD-rom NIC: asante nic-pci Modem: US robotics x2 telephony 33.6/56k