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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
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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?
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project