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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!news.onramp.net!usenet From: rubin@sequel.com (Robert J. Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Initial Installation Problem Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:39:48 GMT Organization: Sequel Systems, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4phj3o$4ir@news.onramp.net> Reply-To: rubin@sequel.com NNTP-Posting-Host: homer.sequel.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I'm really looking forwarding to looking at FreeBSD...now if I can only get it to load. My machine hangs when it goes to "Writing partition information to drive wd0" during the initial installation procedure. By hang, I mean that after 12 hours, it's still has that message (no I didn't watch it for 12 hours :-). The "NUM LOCK" light on the keyboard still responds to the num lock key. I'm using a simple ISA IDE host adapter with two (329 M) IDE drives attached. The machine is a 486/66. Other installed hardward includes a 2x Mitsumi CD-ROM. I've removed the two ethernet boards from the machine to remove variables. The boot floppy was created with the Release 2.1 boot.flp. Ideas or suggestions? Thanks, -Robert --- Robert J. Rubin rubin@sequel.com