From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 18:47:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07437 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:47:35 -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 SAA07432 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA05894; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:47:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:47:28 -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: <199702260057.RAA21302@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: > I tried to install again today, again without success. However, this > time it did not run into that same error. It seemed to go through the > installation fine (though never having successfully installed FreeBSD > before, I can only guess what `fine' is), although I did not hear much > additional disk activity. Beyond the basic installation, I did not > install any extra packages, etc, I wanted to get a working system > first. However, I did install Xwindows and when I got to the > configuration for it, it seemed to think that X was not installed. Hm. Try NOT doing ANY post-install, just exit. You can do any of the post-install activities afterwards. If you try installing again, try the following: 1. Delete the freebsd slice and start anew. 2. Keep an eye on the ALT-F2 console during install. It may be having trouble and you're not seeing it. > Is there somewhere else that I should look for problems that may be > occurring or something I should watch for during the install? I'd > like to get a working system soon :/ What install method are you using, I forgot. > > 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. > > What might be misconfigured? The only thing I've changed recently is > RAM and that was in December. The entire system has been working fine > since then and up until I started trying to install FreeBSD, so I am > at a loss about what could be wrong. The RAM may be defective then. DOS and friends are pretty lenient towards bad memory, but FreeBSD gives it a real workout and will ferret out any faulty RAM. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major