From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 15:59:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cats.ucsc.edu (rumpleteazer.UCSC.EDU [128.114.129.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B362D14D35 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 15:59:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fire@cats.ucsc.edu) Received: from cm-d0261.resnet.ucsc.edu (cm-d0261.resnet.ucsc.edu [169.233.5.5]) by cats.ucsc.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4.cats-athena) with ESMTP id QAA21094 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:01:41 -0700 (PDT) From: alex carey X-Sender: fire@cm-d0261.resnet.ucsc.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Not installing, no matter WHAT! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, System: I have a 486 dx66 with 8MB RAM, one of those junky "Sound Blaster" Mistushita CD-ROMS, and an NE2000 ethernet card. Partitions: 450MB on / 120MB on /home ~66MB swap (all devoted bsd) Problem: Want to install BSD. I have the 4-cd set (3.0) and brand new, shiny boot disks that i d/l off the site and (correctly) dd'd. I've run the installation thing a million times already. I do all the kernel specs correctly, it recognizes all of my hardware. If i do the ethernet setup thing, i *AM* set up, i *AM* on the internet. It *SHOULD* work. But... When i get to the actual installation part of the deal, it gets to the first screen, where it's extracting bin to / and it just SITS there, and SITS there and SITS there. What i've tried: CD-ROM (sits at screen) ftp from ftp.freebsd.org (Undefined error: 0) ftp from my other machine, with the cd mounted on pub/3.0-RELEASE (sits at screen) my other machine is a p1/133 running RH5.2 floppies (patience gave out after the first disk wouldn't go) I'd really like this thing to work. Please help! alexandra carey fire@cats.ucsc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message