From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 04:13:56 2003 Return-Path: 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 934B716A4CF for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:13:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptb-mailc04.plus.net (ptb-mailc04.plus.net [212.159.14.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AB443FD7 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:13:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simong@desktop-guardian.com) Received: from [81.174.227.186] (helo=desktop-guardian.com) by ptb-mailc04.plus.net with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 1AJXP8-000P3q-00 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:13:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 16642 invoked by uid 1006); 11 Nov 2003 12:14:03 -0000 Received: from simong@desktop-guardian.com by dtg25 by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.54. spamassassin: 2.55. Clear:. Processed in 12.162931 secs); 11 Nov 2003 12:14:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dtg17) (192.168.0.17) by 192.168.0.25 with SMTP; 11 Nov 2003 12:13:50 -0000 Message-ID: <01b401c3a84d$1c7629c0$1100a8c0@dtg17> From: "Simon Gray" To: , References: <20031111062720.1F2818AEDE@xmxpita.excite.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:12:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Installation Hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:13:56 -0000 > I'm at my wits end and if I could figure out how to simply remove the boot loader I wouldn't be far from giving up and >moving on to another OS. > > Specs: > PIII 733 Mhz > 384 MB Ram > 120 GB HD, w/ a windows partition already on it > > Also, when I begin a CD install, after it hangs, it strangely won't boot to the cd-rom anymore. After I boot to the >FreeBSD floppies, and that install fails, I can then boot from the cd-rom again. Hi Nick, Welcome to the world of freebsd :) You're problem looks interesting, what version of freebsd are you trying? Have you setup any swap space? if so how much? You can do this when you setup freebsd's. partitions. How big are the partitions you've assigned? is there enough space to install what you've choosen to install? Personally, i'd suggest doing a minimum install first, with say about 384 - 768meg swap (suggested is twice your ram), and a few gig on '/var' and '/usr' and a few hundered meg on '/' i've got an p3 866, with 512 meg of ram and 2x 20gig hdd's mirrored hdd my partitions are as follows: 1gig swap 264M / 264M /tmp 39G /usr 264M /var (although if I were to set that box up again, i'd assign more space to /var) Should you have enough of using freebsd, you should be able to clear your MBR (Master boot record)/freebsd boot loader by doing 'fdisk /mbr' from a dos boot disk Hope this helps, Simon