Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 04:56:24 -0700 From: charon@freethought.org To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, "Andrey P. Babiy" <dea@mail.iac911.dp.ua> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation problem Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990906045624.027010f0@mail> In-Reply-To: <01bb01bef914$9ffef160$827e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <199909061104.OAA03118@centr.iskra.dp.ua>
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At 09:37 AM 9/7/99 -0000, Doug Young wrote: >Make it easier for yourself ..... get a CD and do a regular installation >like most everyone else does > >I've been that route before trying to do other types of installation and >never >failed to get problems .... but the CD thing just works like its supposed to You shouldn't _need_ the CD's, though. I installed every version of FreeBSD from 2.2.2 to 3.2 via DOS partition, and it worked fine every single time. I don't know what could be wrong in this case, but I do know that DOS partition installation usually works. I did get the 3.2 CD's a while ago, though, and they are nice. If you don't mind spending the money (it isn't much), they'd probably be worth it (_especially_ for newbies - they and _The_Complete_FreeBSD_ probably would have made my early newbiehood _much_ easier). >> I have tried to install it from floppies and DOS partition. The results >> were the same. I successfully configured hardware, defined the partitions >> information, defined the installation type (from floppies or from DOS >> partition), defined "smallest possible configuraton" (or "user >> configuration" and then "bin" distribution). The process of installation >is >> started, but just started: it is not continued. The message "1024 bytes >> read ... chunk 1 of 106 ..." is the last one I see. It is not changed. >> After that computer does not react on keyboard at all. >> Sometimes computer is stopped later (60-70% of installation). But when I >> am trying to install from DOS partition, it is only as above mentioned. -Charon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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