From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 22:05:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4A6106564A for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5268FC13 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (client-86-31-3-93.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.31.3.93]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 96DCE5D42; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:05:32 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Rich Message-ID: <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown> In-Reply-To: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:05:21 -0000 On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Rich wrote: > "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " > > I've waited almost an hour. how long is it supposed to take? It would > be nice if there were a status bar or spinning wheel or something to > let you know if it's doing anything or hung. What can I do to get > this to install. It should take less than a second to complete. -- Bruce Cran