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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. :)
>
>
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