Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 21:01:52 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Tad Marko" <txtad@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation Hang Message-ID: <000b01bfff4a$4aec5bd0$b5440ace@mark8> References: <20000805063438.19089.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Tad Marko" <txtad@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 1:34 AM Subject: Re: Installation Hang > > --- Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > Well, either F2 doesn't display anything helpful, or I just wasn't able > to hit it quick enough. Basically, what happens is I get as far as the > I'm sorry, you need to hit Alt-F2. My bad. Give it another go and see what happens. Josh > Extracting bin into / directory... > > screen and it stops at > > 482304 bytes read from bin dist, chunk 3 of 132 @ 235.5 KB/sec. > > and hangs. > > Tad > > > From: "Tad Marko" <txtad@yahoo.com> > > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 9:47 AM > > Subject: Installation Hang > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Having having been a Linux-head for a while, I thought I'd give > > FreeBSD > > > a try. A friend gave me an old Packard-Hell P133. A couple of weeks > > > ago, I bought the FreeBSD Power Pack at Fry's, but didn't realize > > that > > > it was an old 3.3 release. However, I went ahead and installed it > > while > > > a friend downloaded the 4.0 and then 4.1 releases for me. > > > > > > The 3.3 release installed just fine, but I never really ran the > > system > > > that way because my friend had the 4.0 CD ready for me. I installed > > > from that, or tried to, and that's when the trouble began. The CD > > will > > > boot fine, and I get as far as beginning to copy /bin to the hard > > > drive, but then the install hangs at 4% into the copy. > > > > > > At first I thought the CD was corrupt, and that's when my friend > > got > > > 4.1 for me. Expecting that everything would be just fine now, I > > tried > > > installing from that one. Same problem, but now at 2% into the > > copy. If > > > I try booting from floppies, the same thing occurs. > > > > > > Help! Does anyone have any idea what might be different between 3.3 > > and > > > 4.0 and 4.1 that would be stopping me? Since I'm booting from the > > CD, I > > > assume the CD is visible to the installer. Since the 3.3 install > > worked > > > fine last week, I expect that there is no reason why 4.1 cannot be > > made > > > to work. > > > > > > Any help is appreciated, > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Tad > > > > > > > Try another install, but hit F2 when it starts to copy files and see > > if it > > gives an error message to that terminal when it hangs. > > > > I don't know of any reason why 3.3 would install and 4.0 or 4.1 > > wouldn't, > > but that doesn't mean there isn't one. :) > > > ===== > It's tough being libertarian. Liberals think you're a > conservative, conservatives think you're a liberal. > > This isn't my real email address. I only use this one > when I need web access to mail. You can reply to this > note here, but my real email address is tad@earthling.net > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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