From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 20:29:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from demai02.mw.mediaone.net (demai02.mw.mediaone.net [24.131.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEA414F6F for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasonc@concentric.net) Received: from stan (nic-c12-029.mw.mediaone.net [24.131.12.29]) by demai02.mw.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA10051; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:27:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001601bf4847$f3ef7e20$0101010a@stan> Reply-To: "Jason" From: "Jason" To: "Martin Welk" Cc: References: <004201bf47d8$0d12b0e0$0101010a@stan> <19991216224347.D13659@theatre.sax.de> Subject: Re: Installing 3.3 from CDROM Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:34:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is exactly what happens after I insert the NFS disk and press enter the spinning slash thingie starts up. Then The following message Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel in xx seconds... it then counts down. I hit any other key for command prompt and it tells me to hit ? for command list and help for detailed help. Help does not work but ? shows me the following commands reboot heap bcachestat boot autoboot help ? show set unset more lsdev include ls load unload lsmod pnpscan disk0s4a:> Thats about it. Nothing that I can determine is an error message. And if I allow it to reboot what I said below takes place. as for the email program I am using you are the first to tell me there is a problem with it....everyone I know uses some sort of wordprocessor like email program that puts CR/LF at the end of paragraphs not lines...lines are autowraped based on window size. I dont know how to chage my email to fit less compatible email clients. sorry Thanks for any help you may provide Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Welk" To: "Jason" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 4:43 PM Subject: Re: Installing 3.3 from CDROM > On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 10:13:04AM -0500, Jason wrote: > > > It goes through more of the above and then states that it will reboot > > automatically in 10 seconds. This reboot was not mentioned in any of > > the DOCs but I since there is no error message I let it continue. > > Your mail setup is broken, most lines have no breaks before within a length > going over 3-4 lines on a more-than-80-characters-width-xterm. > > However, that reboot isn't part of the program. There must be something > very wrong causing the kernel to panic and reboot, perhaps some disk > error, perhaps something with your hardware. > > Try to look for error messages right before the reboot happens. Without > them, helping you is more than difficult. At least I can say, this is not > normal :-( > > Regards, > > Martin > -- > /| /| | /| / ,,You know, there's a lot of opportunities, > / |/ | artin |/ |/ elk if you're knowing to take them, > you know, there's a lot of opportunities, > Freiberg/Saxony, Germany if there aren't you can make them, > mw@sax.de / mw@theatre.sax.de make or break them!'' (Tennant/Lowe) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message