From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 6 18:51:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07673 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adam.adonai.net (adam.adonai.net [205.182.92.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07665 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (leec@localhost) by adam.adonai.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA03472; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 22:00:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 22:00:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lee Crites (AEI)" To: Chuck Robey cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Packard Bell? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: =>> tried just doing an install, without success. It just hangs at various =>> points (none of the 9 tries hung at the same spot) after all of the =>> setup screens and fs work, while copying blocks of data from the cd. => =>If no one answers this, maybe no one's done it? But if you want help, and =>you don't give any indications of what problems you're seeing, you really =>can't be terribly surprised if no one's able to help you. I figured a generic question would get a generic reply. If anyone had upgraded a pb box from windoze 95 to fbsd they (I hope) would say something like "I did and it's working okay for me." There is this fine line between dumping tons of information on a list in the hopes of getting an instant and detailed anwer right away vs. a generic question which will require followup. One wastes bandwidth for the 99% while the other requires multiple messages for the 1% (or less). I'm guilty of both, but I was shooting for the latter option this time. Lee