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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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In-Reply-To: <199708112245.RAA03049@horizon.hit.net> from Acid Jazz at "Aug 11, 97 05:45:58 pm"
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> I seem to be having a problem installing freebsd. I've got the 2.2.2 cd's 
> and i go through the setup process fine untill the screen goes to 
> installing freebsd and it reads my cd then it reads the harddrive like 
> its getting ready to install, then it just sits there on 1% and nothing 
> happens. i would really apprecatie some help thanks. 

Please tell us more about your hardware (IDE/SCSI - Disks etc.).
How is your CDROM connected?

To get some hints on what went wrong, press the ALT F2 key combination
before it hangs. This will put you on a screen where some error
messages might show up.

Wolfgang