Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:53:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamil Weatherbee <support@cdrom.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD installation problem (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960628115257.9766C-100000@mother.cdrom.com>
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Technical Support Walnut Creek CDROM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 07:55:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Robert J. Rubin" <rubin@sequel.com> To: support@cdrom.com Subject: FreeBSD installation problem Hi. I've got the January 1996 FreeBSD 2.1 CDROM, and I'm having some installation problems. I know you guys didn't write it, but I'm hoping that you've seen my problem before. (I tried posting to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but didn't get much of a response :-( ). I a nutshell, I'm attempting to install on a 486/66 VLB w/ 16M RAM. The only hardware in the machine is a non-VLB IDE controller with 2 drives a Mitsumi CD-ROM, and a VLB Mach 32 video board (I also tried a Trident I had laying around). Before booting, I disable all other non-essential hardware (including all serial ports, network boards, all other disk controllers, etc...). The installation will hang immediately after "writing paritition information." The screen hangs with that message, though I believe it actually gets written. I can see the partitions have been defined if a reboot and go through fdisk again. I connected the hard drive and CD-ROM to a Pentium 133 and loaded the OS with no problem. Once connecting the loaded drive back onto the 486, it hangs during boot after a fsck'ing the file systems. And ideas? Thanks, -Robert -- Robert J. Rubin rubin@sequel.com
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