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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Initial Installation Problem Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:17:12 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <31BE36B8.31DFF4F5@FreeBSD.org> References: <4phj3o$4ir@news.onramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: rubin@sequel.com Robert J. Rubin wrote: > My machine hangs when it goes to "Writing partition information to > drive wd0" during the initial installation procedure. By hang, I mean > that after 12 hours, it's still has that message (no I didn't watch it > for 12 hours :-). The "NUM LOCK" light on the keyboard still responds > to the num lock key. Hmmm. Looks like it's totally failing to talk to your disk. What's the partitioning of these guys look like? -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project