From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 15:19:18 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 A724F37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop017.verizon.net (pop017pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8210443F3F for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ej.cerejo@laposte.net) Received: from laposte.net ([68.160.106.19]) by pop017.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030411221916.VJKS1817.pop017.verizon.net@laposte.net>; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:19:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3E973F6B.8030905@laposte.net> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:19:23 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Donovan References: <013301c30067$e8966df0$6401a8c0@UPSTAIRS> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop017.verizon.net from [68.160.106.19] at Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:19:16 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:19:19 -0000 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" >