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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Dannavan Morrison <dmor@grouper.batelnet.bs>
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Subject: Re:Distribution packages freezes
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Dannavan Morrison wrote:

> I have
>   (i)    A Packard Bell Platinum I Pentium 133 mHz computer.
>  (ii)    16 Mb Ram
>  (iii)  2.1 G hard drive -LBA is enabled
>  (iv)  A  4X  Sony Cd-Rom Drive
>  (iv)  The Drives are connected directly to the motherboard.

OK.

> An addtional sound card is also installed on an ISA port. (DC
> Technology)

OK.

>  The CD is configured as a master  device?

Master on the second controller, if I remember default PackardHell
configs.

>  Problem:
>  A  Walnut CD-ROM is used to install the software onto my computer.
>  Using the smallest possible configuration I try to install 4.4 BSD Lite
> 
>  Based  32 bit Operating System  Release 2.2.2.

(aka FreeBSD)

> All goes well until it reaches the reading section of the files from the
> 
>  first directory i.e. bin directory. The system just hangs displaying
> the
>  message 1024 bytes read ....from 1 of 72... @ 1.0 kb/sec.
> 
> The Keyboard also hangs.

Can you hit ALT-F2 and see if there are any errors?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major