Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:19:23 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" <ej.cerejo@laposte.net> To: Mike Donovan <mike.donovan@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install is hanging Message-ID: <3E973F6B.8030905@laposte.net> References: <013301c30067$e8966df0$6401a8c0@UPSTAIRS>
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Try boot from floppies instead, from a previous post: To make these two floppies download these 3 files: ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE/floppies/kern.flp ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE/floppies/mfsroot.flp ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe Put them all in the same folder then bring up the dos prompt and cd into that directory, put an empty floppy in your floppy drive and type: fdimage kern.flp a: then put another floppy and run fdimage mfsroot.flp a: boot with floppy that has the kern.flp image first later it will ask you for the second one. Mike Donovan wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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