From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 14:54:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD6D37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from eckardt.org (pD958A43F.dip.t-dialin.net [217.88.164.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404A043F93 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:54:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de) Received: from roberte.no-ip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eckardt.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1OMsWW35491 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:54:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de) From: "Robert Eckardt" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FBSD5.0-R/4.7-R on EPoX 4GEA+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:54:32 +0100 Message-Id: <20030224225432.M20305@Robert-Eckardt.de> In-Reply-To: <20030224223012.M45105@Robert-Eckardt.de> References: <20030224223012.M45105@Robert-Eckardt.de> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.71 20020827 X-OriginatingIP: 217.88.164.63 (roberte) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, installing FreeBSD 5.0- or 4.7-RELEASE on my new hardware turns out to be quite impossible. The system consists of an EPoX EP-4GEA+ mainboard with Intel Celeron 2GHz (which is recognized as a Pentium 4 with HTT ???) and 512MB DDR266-RAM. 2 IBM DTLA-307075 are controlled by a HighPoint 372 onboard RAID controller as a RAID-1-array on IDE channel 3 and 4. Besides the on-board RealTek 8139B for DSL (later :-) a 3Com 905B is used for 100MBit-LAN. The BIOS settings were left on safe defaults, except for disabling the on-board 1394 and SATA interfaces. The system boots from floppy (the SCSI-controller and CD-ROM are still in the productive server) and mounts the server via NFS. I chose the following partitions on a dedicated disk ar0 in this order: a: / 250MB b: swap 500MB d: /var 200MB e: /usr 3GB f: /src 7GB g: /big 60.5GB After walking through the menus for custom installation it starts making filesystems. 5.0 issues a message which I cannot read as it is quickly overwritten (nothing on VT2 though). During installation of the distributions (X-Developer) the system freezes (never at the same point) with the HDD light on (no audible disk activity). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or what I can do to make the system work??? Thanks, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt --- Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message