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Date:      Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:00:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Bart Smit <bit@signature.nl>
To:        dimension 6 <bxdimension6@hotmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: suggestion for 4.7
Message-ID:  <20020814124344.Q99588-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20020814103840.GA45280@walton.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:56:19PM +0000, dimension 6 wrote:
> I really have been suffered from FreeBSD's system hangs on my system
> (athlon amd). I am new to FreeBSD, but I know some people complaining
> about same problem as I have on FreeBSD. It stops responding during
> installation or whatever I try to install something larger than normal.

When you say "system hangs" and "it stops responding", does that mean that
the entire system hangs (and will not react to anything such as
interrupting the installation program, switching vty, pressing
alt-ctrl-del, or ejecting the cd), or does the install stop (while the
system continues to work)?

I have seen the latter (install stops; system works fine) happen a few
times, and it was my impression that the atapi cdrom drive I was using was
at fault; I never had it during ftp install or when i used a scsi cdrom
drive. But it was only a vague impression. Never really investigated.

And if you have the former (complete hang) it's even more likely that you
have hardware problems...

--Bart


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