From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 21:59:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E998A1065672 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rl001@pacbell.net) Received: from web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.199.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B066A8FC12 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 99936 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Jul 2010 21:59:04 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pacbell.net; s=s1024; t=1279663144; bh=h7hRGG2en0J2lsKCPeh+WZu83e6kLnzPZGIYtkC+KZQ=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=SRWBb/O3JaYkMetp555fnxZvsF+dvTCH+5okF3uQhD+5RfbEgderbo3NsNQcaKUjdGfAa+H4IweWCwzOAXt13ocbXT76TYfmdlN0/FWpFLNV6AMlODQzXu/sOTYyxlDKBNCOIG1WbsMMgjtYbyafls8srOcAzMG544hyR2zUmmY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=vonjNjmjxM4i4GGn0OPYYgcAwWjxabWJkoUli+1oz34Dfi1BuHKeyAStr3VEwzNgCVyKM+DIHFDBCZg7I2YMDW5aoXRahSk2qdwlc5eouO7GePVNCWNqWl8OjoEzTQS7xyKJy2K4ZCRSE9pkn5C9p1lrM3YGFMsjq3UAl/hp8RA=; Message-ID: <117437.98621.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: KYXyqKkVM1lcnRowQFncc1U7vPYBCzu_mw30De_..un2YMQ cwEJXYaqhu2laGHuYGo5Br07UrxsNbMFFYJF2asxaZWCYk.Sl29EUapAraM4 urvtCFpIvSnXsHiKUf_pJiIsZvqVOyJCM7sQA.Dm5kpuMJoRmCaIoSUxmS5x DHxgreUxU3SvM4uBJyoZHaI.L9nTDuLsal5FPeabT7jsSKX.aFXz8FYK2FDE YoUr6e9p5IstIDvuMuXM3kZdxS3w7w6uO.BJe4jzisJIQYohwb9ag27Jv5zg 5EUbNdFBtKEekIsKFIVJ_SaZktNd5Xu1pUkZEiORpCCGONFURmsE0hIOi25Z rVBHLNRx8KLs- Received: from [71.139.197.167] by web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:59:04 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/420.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.104.276605 References: <4c455351.iveHHylYsmZKh9Xe%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:59:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4c455351.iveHHylYsmZKh9Xe%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:59:05 -0000 Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer. Every other OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I check? ________________________________ From: Thomas Mueller To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 12:42:09 AM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " I had this problem trying to install FreeBSD on my old computer: Cx486DX2 CPU at 66 MHz; 20 MB RAM; 1.2 GB IDE hard drive; 2x Texel, now Plextor, CD-ROM on Trantor T130B SCSI (NCR5380 chip; no support in FreeBSD >= 3.0); Iomega Zip 250 on same SCSI card. That was in the days of FreeBSD 4.x. No such problem on my newer computer with FreeBSD 7.x and now 8.0. I wondered if this part had been revamped with FreeBSD 5.x. If you could boot a FreeBSD live file system, for which downloadable iso images are now available, you might be able to look at the sysinstall scripts, and after partitioning/disklabeling (bsdlabel), you might be able to newfs and make mount points, and untar the pieces (base.aa, base.ab, etc) onto the desired FreeBSD target slice. I've wondered why FreeBSD installation sets (base, etc, games, comp, man and others) are broken into pieces of 1392 KB each as opposed to each installation set in a single .tgz or .tbz (base.tgz, etc.tgz, comp.tgz, and others: that's how NetBSD does it). NetBSD installation CD also offers a utility shell (sh). With floppy disks and floppy drives showing their age, I wouldn't be able to get enough good floppy disks together to install FreeBSD from floppies, and I believe others would have the same problem. I never actually did this, so I can't be sure if I'd succeed: decidedly not user-friendly but might be interesting to try in a pinch. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"