Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 04:33:41 -0800 (PST) From: Fernando Astorga <fernando@cea.Berkeley.EDU> To: 73664.2073@compuserve.com (Leonard W. Mah) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Message-ID: <199503311233.EAA09557@treasure.cea.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <950331045452_73664.2073_DHR60-1@CompuServe.COM> from "Leonard W. Mah" at Mar 30, 95 11:54:52 pm
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Leonard W. Mah writes:
...
> right? All of the smaller distributions installed without the SCSI timeout
> error. Then, upon installing XFREE86, the checksums verified correctly I got
> the extracting, please wait message. Nothing happened after that with no
> activity from the CD ROM drive or the slave drive. I waited a good 10 minutes
> to be sure, and it just sat there doing nothing. Is there another way to
> install XFREE86 that is not too painful?
>
> I would have to say that other than this problem I am more impressed with
> FreeBSD than Linux, but as an ex Cal Bear I am a just a little biased. Any help
> would be appreciated...and thanks for your time.
>
> Leonard W. Mah
>
I had this same problem a few weeks ago. Here's my original post, then
the helpful responses I got:
2) When I was installing the XFree86-3.1 distribution, the CD-ROM
hung forever and I had to start all over. First I thought it was the
size of it in combination with my slow controller, but when I tried
the src distribution (which is 160M vs 80M for XFree86), it worked fine.
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
> Did you try switching to the second screen (Alt-F2)? It has been an
> oversight in 2.0-Release (is it fixed meanwhile? Jordan?) that the
> XFree86 installation script didn't fit right into the sysinstall way
> of doing things, and simply asked its questions on its own tty (which
> happens to be ttyv1).
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
> Are you sure it wasn't just waiting for you over on ALT-F2?
>
> This behavior has been changed for 2.1, but that's the way it worked in 2.0.
>
Hope this helps.
Fernando Astorga - A current Cal Bear
fernando@cea.Berkeley.edu
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