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Date:      04 Sep 2001 12:51:25 -0500
From:      Jeremy <thinker5555@yahoo.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Install freezes
Message-ID:  <87vgiysv36.fsf@yahoo.com>

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Good day, all!

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 (from downloaded CD) on my machine, and it
freezes on me.  I get through the part where I have to do the kernel config
(the very first task to take care of) and then after that it continues
booting with a number of harware messages going by, and then it gets to a
blue screen (eesh) and dies where it says "Detecting hardware (this could
take some time" How long should this take?  I let it set for an hour and a
half earlier thinking that perhaps it was just "detecting hardware", but it
never went any farther. I noticed that when it first hit that screen, my hard
drive did a quick read and then all was quiet.  I know my hard drive is not
dead because I can still boot into my other OSs from it.  Does anyone have
any suggestions as to what might be going on?

Any and all help is appreciated,
Jeremy

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