Re: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)

2013-07-26 Thread bw.mail.lists
On 7/26/2013 12:00 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Upon trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 on a HP Proliant DL585G5 installation freezes when it comes to the point Archive Extraction while extracting ports. To be specific, the system freezes while extracting ports.txz at 23% with Overal Progress being

Re: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)

2013-07-26 Thread Ewald Jenisch
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

Re: Installation hangs during Archive extraction phase (9.1)

2013-07-26 Thread Adam Vande More
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

portmaster: hal-0.5.14_20 and xorg-server-1.7.7_6, 1 (re)installation fails

2012-12-18 Thread Bas Smeelen
When running portmaster -d -w -r pcre because of the upgrade from pcre-8.31 to pcre-8.32 I encountered the following inconveniences: Upgrade to hal-0.5.14_20 failed with the message it needs intltool 0.40 which was installed at the time. First upgrading to intltool-0.41.1 solved this. When

Re: installation of yuma

2012-09-19 Thread ahmed elouadrhiri
thank you a lot Steve; it's worked very well. Best regards 2012/9/18 Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:25:03 + ahmed elouadrhiri ahmedelouadrh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; i tried to install yuma in freebsd by the command : make freebsd=1 and it give me

Re: installation of yuma

2012-09-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:25:03 + ahmed elouadrhiri ahmedelouadrh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; i tried to install yuma in freebsd by the command : make freebsd=1 and it give me : Makefile, line 14: Need an operator At a guess you need to use gmake (you may need to install it

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 00:04, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the kernel scans for the

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:04:12 +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Now my question: can I take the harddisk out, install FreeBSD 9 over another laptop (with the X31-harddisk inside) and put the installed harddrive back to the X31? Is there anything else besides the rc.d-stuff what will/will not get

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 22 February 2012 09:04, herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 22 February 2012 21:04:12 herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread herbert langhans
Thanks for all the hints - now I have some point to go on. First I try to use 8.2 from the memstick. If that fails I get such a little adapter and install it from a normal PC (using the CD). I'll let you know after my homework is done. Good to know that FreeBSD has some neutral kernel and

Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread R Skinner
On 12/11/11 16:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version

Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/12/2011 06:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there

Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available on the FTP servers specifically for that version ... What, exactly, _is_ the policy on retention of the

Re: Installation problem on AMD64

2011-02-22 Thread Jim Trigg
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jim Trigg jtr...@spamcop.net wrote: I do an installation from DVD on AMD64, and when I reboot it hangs before displaying anything from the standard boot loader.  How can I debug this? I found my problem by accident -- I had a badly formatted USB stick

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 23 August 2010 15:01:22 Mubeesh ali wrote: Hi, In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:05:39 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I don't have a memory stick, but I do have other hard drives, should I try it on the other HD's??? Have you been lucky to successfully boot from CD / DVD (1st question) and install FreeBSD onto the hard

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-23 Thread Mubeesh ali
Hi, In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old :-( ). The lappy was running ubuntu and fedora fine. Hope

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:01:08AM -0400, Derek Schwartz wrote: Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard drive was wiped clean. I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Polytropon
//* I've re-included the list, hope that's okay. On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:15:13 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: I re-formated the drive and it still gives me the same error error {0-01} You don't need to format anything. Just make sure all kinds of partitions are removed.

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Polytropon
//* I've re-included the list, hope that's okay. On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:02:25 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: as soon as a I put the cd in the computer for the first time. Please try to avoid top-posting, as it counts as bad style on this maining list; thank you. If the

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Mubeesh ali
Hi , not sure.This sounds like my issue as well ? After install of bsd on a laptop with ubuntu ;it does not boot and gets stuck in bios splash . I had emailed on this earlier. thanks, Mubeesh On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: //* I've re-included the list,

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:58:44 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm... I've tried the full install... maybe I'll try the boot only CD... Basically, that shouldn't make any difference. I usually use the full install (1 CD) when building a system from scratch intendedly.

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:35:42 +0530, Mubeesh ali mubeeshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , not sure.This sounds like my issue as well ? After install of bsd on a laptop with ubuntu ;it does not boot and gets stuck in bios splash . I had emailed on this earlier. Yes, the verbosity of the error

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:01:08 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard drive was wiped clean. I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard

Re: Installation - no disks detected

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 30 July 2010 05:58:02 Prateek Sharma wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD-8.1 on a server with the LSI SAS 9200 disk controller card. Before the partitioning step the installer says disks not found.. However, just after freebsd boots , i get the diagnostic message

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-05-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:47:40AM +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote: The fix is to use options - rescan devices in the installer. After that, when selecting CDROM as media type, the installer lets you chose between cd0 and acd0. Select the cd0 device instead of acd0 to use the virtual cd

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-28 Thread Palle Girgensohn
The fix is to use options - rescan devices in the installer. After that, when selecting CDROM as media type, the installer lets you chose between cd0 and acd0. Select the cd0 device instead of acd0 to use the virtual cd drive. I recon the problem occurs because of confusion between the

Re: Installation queries

2010-04-24 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown

Re: Installation queries

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto

Re: Installation queries

2010-04-24 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 09:32 a.m. 24/04/2010, you wrote: On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the

Re: Installation queries

2010-04-24 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Jorge Biquez wrote: I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios. - Extra disk(s)

Re: Installation queries

2010-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Jorge Biquez wrote: I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios.

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:27:11AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Try a re-scan of the devices from the options menu. If that doesn't help, try connecting to an ISO image in iLO instead of an optical device. Hi Doug, This is exactly what I did in the first playe, i.e. mounting an ISO-Image as

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: ... Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. Oops, now I understand. Just curious: Why can the machine boot off

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 04/23/2010 06:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: ... Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. Oops, now I

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual

Re: installation problem

2010-04-16 Thread Антон Клесс
I guess I have the same problem. I trying to install 7.2-RELEASE on server with Supermicro X8DTU-Fhttp://market.yandex.ru/model.xml?modelid=4633058MB. BIOS is the newest. Just in time I boot from CD I get such errors after detecting CPU: acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left) acd0:

Re: installation problem

2010-04-13 Thread Richard DeLaurell
I cannot tell for sure, but the installation seems to be failing at the point where it must install/read from the cdrom; is that correct? If so, it may be that your cdrom drive has a DMA conflict; I believe that Toshiba ATAPI drives have such problems. Provided you have a broadband connection,

Re: installation problem

2010-04-13 Thread Fbsd1
Александров Иван wrote: Hellow,my name is Ivan,i have installation problem configuration: intel seleron Dual-core e3300 2.5/800/1mb BOX LGA775 BX80571E3300 ASUS P5KPL-AM SE Soket 775/iG31/DDR II/PCI-Ex16/Video/mAXT DDR II 1024Mb PC-6400,800MHz Crucial (Micron) 160Gb Hitachi

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:50:03 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. Well, that's no problem per se,

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Peter
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:50:03 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. Well, that's no problem per

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:38:40 -0700 (MST), Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: UFS: I usually setup a ~10G slice for the OS [ad0s1] and in that slice I have a /tmp /var /usr...and then use the rest of the disk for another slice containing all my data and home directories - This way if I ever need

Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Roger
Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I have

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Julien Gormotte
Roger rno...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Adam Vande More
Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes that I have some other OS (linux) installed, since I

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ which seems to cover pretty much all should need but it assumes

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:12:06PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I'm in control of a dedicated server and I would like to re-install FreeBSD. I found the following guide:

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Polytropon
A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a separate slice. In most cases,

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-13 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big slice that covers the entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have /usr/local in a

Re: installation

2009-10-24 Thread Kelly Martin
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, levent basar eagleu...@hotmail.com wrote: hi freebsd is one of the good ones but its hard to install why dont you make the installation user friendly like pc bsd and also there are so many ati graphic card users can you add some new ati drives to new freebsd

Re: installation

2009-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:10:49 +0100, levent basar eagleu...@hotmail.com wrote: hi freebsd is one of the good ones but its hard to install It's not hard to install. Just follow the instructions on screen. Because FreeBSD isn't restricted to a particular field of use (such as most other

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:29:26AM +, b. f. typed: Lane Holcombe wrote: Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread PJ
Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22,

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread PJ
Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you

Re: Installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread b. f.
from same script. Let me know, please, if it's ok? Well, not quite. == #!/bin/sh # # Update source, docs and ports LOCAL_DIR=$(pwd) You don't need to change directories if you change some of the commands slightly, so the above line and the last line are unnecessary. cd

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] Ok, I normally do something like that... problem here was that I made the mistake of thinking that an interesting little script I found was good for updating... but, I was sadly mistaken. The error was due to a badly downloaded ports tree. That fixed, all works fine. I

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread Lane Holcombe
I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the whole dang FreeBSD

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread b. f.
Lane Holcombe wrote: Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the whole dang FreeBSD

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread b. f.
Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? This is supposed to be automated, but of course things can sometimes go wrong, either through hardware problems, user-error, or an error in Ports. I usually have

Re: Installation - VT4

2009-05-11 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.comwrote: When you install freeBSD via sysinstall you could switch to VT2 which displays what files it is currently installing and you could switch to VT4 which displays some kind of prompt. What exactly is that prompt? sh?

Re: installation on Acer 4220

2008-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to abedini abedini.erics...@gmail.com: Hi all dear I have laptop acer 4220 and I need to install FreeBSD. This laptop have sata HDD how can install FreeBSD in this system. Are you having difficulty? What have you tried. Quite honestly, I don't understand the question. --

Re: Installation on a Dell Poweredge R805

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Boyd
On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Tim Judd wrote: 1: PERC6 is not listed as supported, last time I checked. 2: Dells are notorious for not working very well with !Windows, ! Linux (haven't tried something like Open Solaris) I have a new PE2950's at the office, FreeBSD sees everything, including

Re: Installation on a Dell Poweredge R805

2008-12-03 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Chris Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue installing FreeBSD 7 AMD64 on a Dell Poweredge R805. The system starts to boot, throws several mpt_cam_event 0x12 and 0x16 errors, presents the boot menu, and then crashes with a Fatal trap 12: page

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Steven Susbauer
Niyi Christ wrote: Hi, I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:02:40PM -0800, Niyi Christ wrote: Hi,   I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Nerius Landys
I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:35:19PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:35:37PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread ton80
Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Just to add to that--same situation, but the mouse

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread ton80
ton80 wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:19:40AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with USB Legacy Support. The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. Just to add

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread ton80
Jeremy Chadwick-3 wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:50AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Jeremy Chadwick-3 wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to

RE: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ton80 Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:54 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation Hangs Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of

RE: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread mdh
Yes, you can remove the hard disk, put it in a different machine, install FreeBSD on it, then move the disk back. At that point, if you don't need a graphical console, then a serial console might be a good work-around option.

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 10:54 -0700, ton80 wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD. During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system hangs indefinitely. When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. During the boot process, as it is reading all the

Re: Installation Question

2008-09-27 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Ray Madigan wrote: I am trying to move a couple of machines from Suse Linux to FreeBSD and I am having an installation issue on the first machine. I have a 1.8GHZ Pentium on an ASUS mainboard. DUring installation I give the geometry of the drive on the machine, a Western Digital WD8000JB, the

Re: Installation Question

2008-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Ray Madigan wrote: I am trying to move a couple of machines from Suse Linux to FreeBSD and I am having an installation issue on the first machine. I have a 1.8GHZ Pentium on an ASUS mainboard. DUring installation I give the geometry of the drive on the machine, a Western Digital WD8000JB,

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-24 Thread Viacheslav Chumushuk
Thanks for help, guys. I'll try this way at the evening (GT +2). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 08:36:11PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. Probably your best bet is to ignore the

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-24 Thread Viacheslav Chumushuk
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 09:58:05 Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Thanks for help, guys. I'll try this way at the evening (GT +2). I was trying, but witout success. Answer the same :( I don't know what is the strange problem... ___

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. Probably your best bet is to ignore the geometry stuff and just let it do its own thing. Do not try to set the

Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36

2008-06-23 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hey Viacheslav, I always ignore that message every time I will install fresh FreeBSD It doesn't not create error or anything during the installation. Cheers... Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc

Re: installation of Python failed: ./python: Permission denied

2008-05-17 Thread Sahil Tandon
* Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-17-2008]: ./python: Permission denied *** Error code 126 Anything in /etc/fstab being mounted with noexec,nosuid? -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: installation of Python failed: ./python: Permission denied

2008-05-17 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 05/18/2008 12:08 AM, Sahil Tandon wrote: * Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-17-2008]: ./python: Permission denied *** Error code 126 Anything in /etc/fstab being mounted with noexec,nosuid? No nothing noexec or nosuid. Filesystems table is out-of-the-box. Thanks cheers Simon

Re: Installation with IP alias

2008-05-10 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 10 May 2008, constantine wrote: Dear FreeBSD Aficionados, I am trying to install FreeBSD in my notebook through an external USB CD-ROM. While the installation manager runs fine, after choosing the installation media it says it cannot mount /dev/acd0 (which refers to the

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