From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 11 17:45:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA14720 for current-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:45:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from OmniSoft.KillerLabs.Com (elijah@OmniSoft.KillerLabs.Com [207.151.44.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA14713 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:45:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elijah@OmniSoft.KillerLabs.com) Received: from localhost (elijah@localhost) by OmniSoft.KillerLabs.Com (8.8.5-r-beta/6.9) with SMTP id RAA19311 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:45:32 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:45:31 -0800 (PST) From: Eli Reply-To: Eli To: current@freebsd.org Subject: hardware problems.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A friend of mine is having problems installing freebsd.. the last distro he successfully installed was 2.1.5.. but now when he tries to install, it hangs just before sysinstall... he's tried a few different snap distros, and 2.2.5, etc.. they all hang just before sysinstall.. this is a rough idea of his hardware config... AMD 486DX4100 generic 1 mb pci vid card (Trident) some amd chipset mb I think, (not sure on cipset) PCI 16 megs of ram reveal 4x cdrom ide (maxtor on 1st controller, cd on 2nd) any ideas? any help would be greatly appreciated.. if someone knows anything about this, either email back to the list (i'll get that) or email my friend at rholland@freon.republic.k12.mo.us.. thanks Eli Klein OSG - The OmniSoft Group elijah@omnisoft.killerlabs.com