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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sysinstall / LPD
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 05:32:44 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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David B. Mansel wrote:

  First, most every time that I run /stand/sysinstall it locks up the

  system completely... can't even ping the box at this point. It may
  be
  due to not having the FreeBSD CD mounted - this is how things need
  to
  be, but I still want to run the program to do an FTP upgrade. Any
  ideas?

[Fooling around with Navigator 4.0 - just watch as I get the following
paragraph stuck into citation mode, unable to ever get it back out again
:-)]

  That's really weird, that's all I can say. :-)  All I can think is
  that some device in /dev is being opened by sysinstall during its
  "probe" pass, say a tape, CDROM, serial port or floppy, and for some
  strange reason on your system this causes a crash.    You could
  perhaps minimize the chances of  this by disabling every device in
  these systems you don't absolutely need.

--
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.