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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!Aladdin!aladdin.net!ns2.aladdin.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!hermes.sovam.com!sovam!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall hangs! Date: 29 May 1997 12:14:12 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 25 Sender: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@ab152.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5mjruk$dmp$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <338CCDE2.3A54@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ab152.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: un1i X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; AIX 4.1] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41808 M.Sureshkumar Iyer <iyersk@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> wrote: > I installed FBSD 2.2.1. And my X server is working fine. If i invoke > /stand/sysinstall either from prompt or from my X-Windows the system > hangs, and I have to reboot the system. How can I mount my CD-ROM.. For an ATAPI cdrom, it's mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom (where /cdrom is an empty directory). You have to be root for this. To unmount it again: unmount /cdrom (unmount fails if the drive is still busy, e.g. someone has cd'ed to /cdrom/... ) You shouldn't mount the cdrom before starting sysinstall, it mounts the cd itself. At which point exactly does sysinstall hang? When you chose the cdrom as installation medium? Is it a SCSI or ATAPI IDE drive? How exactly do the system messages look like (you can view them again with the command dmesg)? Bye, Philipp -- P. Mergenthaler http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/