On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch <a...@jenisch.at> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:16:32PM +0200, bw.mail.lists wrote: > > You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate > > /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as > > documented in the handbook > > ( > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html > ): > > > > portsnap fetch > > portsnap extract > > > > Hi, > > Thanks for the hint. Now I could finish the installation (which takes > like forever (speaking in terms of 2 hours which is pretty strange > given the raw power of this machine)) however after rebooting the box > behaves weird to say the last: > > I started out be entering "portsnap fetch". Everything runs fine up to > the point when I see "Verifying snapshot integrity". Then the system > completely comes to a grind. After sending the "portsnap fetch" to the > background (^Z) and entering "top" the machine completely freezes > without any indication as to why. > > I've already done a complete hardware diagnosis - everything OK. > > Any ideas on how to track this one down? > Don't install ports during installation, try using 8.4 or 9.1BETA1 instead -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"