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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Initial Installation Problem Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 19:04:12 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 46 Message-ID: <31CA031C.1090@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4phj3o$4ir@news.onramp.net> <31BE36B8.31DFF4F5@FreeBSD.org> <4q3qfa$i9k@news.onramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Robert J. Rubin wrote: > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > >Hmmm. Looks like it's totally failing to talk to your disk. What's the > >partitioning of these guys look like? > > I believe the install can see the disk because it can > read the "fdisk" partition table from the disk initially. > I use the install's "fdisk" program to allocate the entire > hard disk to FreeBSD. I've also used an fdisk from Win95 to set up > the disk for FAT, and later the FreeBSD install recognized it. > > I use the FreeBSD fdisk to allocate the entire disk to FreeBSD. > Upon writing the configuration is when the machine hangs. > > Initially I wouldn't write the config immediate, but would > wait until after the "select install media" screen. I've noticed > that the machine doesn't hang immediately...I can hear the hard disk > doing something...for a few seconds before the hang. > > Also...upon rebooting back in the FreeBSD installation, I can see > changes to the hard disk partition table that must have been > written before any hang occurred. Furthermore, it has retained > size information for the individual file system partitions > (though the names were not retained...only the size). > > It almost seems to hang after it's finished writing to the disk. > > Just for grins I swapped the IDE host adapter, but that didn't help. > What's your source for the installation? In your original post you mention a CD-ROM drive, but you don't say that that's your source. If you're installing from a DOS partition, be sure you don't wipe it out at the beginning of the installation process. If you have room on the other hard drive, that will work fine. Regardless of your installation medium, please specify it, and also list both the pre-installation partitioning of both HDs, and the partitioning scheme you are specifying for the installation itself. I suspect a conflict of some sort, and this may show it. I hope this helps! Ken