From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 11:31:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10575 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA10557 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:30:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA05400; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:29:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:29:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: A Rosina Bignall cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199702251511.IAA10797@shell.aros.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, A Rosina Bignall wrote: > Hardware: 486 DX4-100 with 20Meg of RAM and two IDE drives. > > I am trying to install FreeBSD on the second drive. The first one has > DOS and a partial installation of Linux (in case I need to go back to > it because I can't get FreeBSD working ;). The second one is > dedicated to FreeBSD and is about 540M in size. I am installing via FTP > over a PPP link to my ISP. > I've started the install three times at night or when I'll be gone for > the day and let it run through the night until I get up in the morning > to see how things are going. Everything proceeds without problems, > that I can see, until it gets to the post-install configuration. > Specifically, the last time I tried a Novice install (before that I > had tried custom installs with the same problem) and the problem > occured when it got to the Samba setup. It then hangs. Bouncing over > to the TTY on F2 I found the following message and continuous beeping: > > Debug: Unexpected signal 11 caught. That's bad! > > I can exit the install by hitting Ctrl-C, but it leaves me without a > workable system. Your system should work. Have you tried starting by booting the floppy and typing wd(1,a)/kernel to the Boot: prompt? > What does this error mean and what can I do about it? Where do I > proceed from here? Either something was misconfigured or you have some bad memory and/or processor cache in your system. You should be able to boot from the boot floppy though. > When you boot the floppy and do the configuration, isn't it supposed > to save those settings for the next time you boot? That was my > understanding at least, but each time I boot from it, I have to make > the changes again. They are saved to the kernel on the hard disk, not the floppy. > Also, is there a digest form of any of the mailing lists? I'd like to > follow some of them if I'm to use FreeBSD, but I prefer digests for > high traffic lists. I believe there is, try asking majordomo@freebsd.org 'lists' and look for freebsd-questions-digest or something like that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major