Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 16:37:59 -36803936 (CDT) From: Jonathan Geisler <geisler@mcs.anl.gov> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.0.5 Install Help Message-ID: <199506162138.QAA06268@pelican>
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Last night I tried to install the new release on my local machine. It
is an old 486-33 with 1991 AMI BIOS. 4Mb RAM and 82Mb IDE HD. I choose
the whole disk for a FreeBSD slice and set up 3 partitions: /, /usr, and
swap. I get through the install screen and choose commit and things
start off really well. The partitions are made and mounted (I think)
and then the install starts to copy the root floppy to the HD. Then I
start having problems. Sometimes I get to the binary disks, and
sometimes I don't but I always get the same error:
My machine freezes completely. The FD light is on and if the HD light
was on when the machine froze, it stays on, too. I cannot type anything
to the debug or emergency holographic shell and only a hard reboot will
get me going again.
I get no different output with or without the debugging facilities
turned on/off.
Symptoms: If I am in the debug screen, I am getting the .... printed to
my screen and then nothing. If I go to some other screen and come back,
it is full of messages like:
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 7 failed at out byte 1 of 2
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
:
.
fdc0: too many errors, not logging any more
The only other thing of notice is that at the very beginning before the
swap space has been created, I get the following two messages:
Process 12 killed by vm_pageout -- out of swap
Process 27 killed by vm_pageout -- out of swap
I must use the floppy install because my home machine does not have a
CDROM or connection to the Internet (I have no phone).
Thanks for any help you can give me.
-- Jonathan Geisler --
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