From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 20 22:45:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA09549 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 22:45:49 -0800 Received: from kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA09449; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 22:42:54 -0800 From: krnlhkr@mcs.com Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by kitten.mcs.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA09253; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 00:42:19 -0600 Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Tue, 21 Feb 95 00:50 CST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 00:50 CST Subject: Re: installing troubles To: Jamie Wallace , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-install@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk <---- Begin Included Message ----> I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 on a TI4000 DX2/50 Notebook. It has 8 megs of ram and a 200 meg hard drive. I also have the docking station, which has an Adaptec SCSI card, NEC 2X cdrom, Fujitsu 540MB HD (SCSI of course). I also have an Sound Blaster AWE32. It might seem to many that my problem is the docking station, however the same problem seems to exist if I use the notebook undocked as well. hmmmm ... I seem to have neglected to tell you my problem ... ok I put in the first disk for cd installation and it cranks away and finds everything, all my hardware that is .... :-) ... something linux only wishes it could do ..... BUT then after stating it is going to switch the size of the 'd' partition it just sits there. It is not locked because if I remove the disk it claims that it cannot mount the root partition and reboots the machine. once again I get this problem whether or not I am docked .... please help !!!!! <---- End Included Message ----> Go into the BIOS and shut off ALL power saving stuff (especially the drive power saving features). UNIX doesn't like saving power ;) Actually, what happens is that since there are no requests going out the BIOS for a while, the computer shuts down the drive and stuff and BSD does not know to turn them on. There may be more to your problem, but I think this is a pretty good guess. Buy lots of extra batteries for your laptop ;) -Louis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis J. Giliberto, Jr. ! Support the Free Software Foundation krnlhkr@mcs.com ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------