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From: castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: DEC Hinote ultra install help wanted.
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Date: 03 Feb 1997 15:51:26 GMT
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 using the Walnut Creek CD-ROM
onto a DEC Hinote Ultra 450 using an adaptec 1460 PCMCIA scsi adapter
and a Sony CDU-76R CD-ROM.

The system seems to hang after the kernel finishes detecting devices,
and it clears the screen, (presumably to run sysinstall?).

I booted the kernel by booting off an MS-DOS floppy, and then running
'install.bat' off the CD-ROM drive, so I don't think it's interference
from Windows95, etc.

I searched in Dejanews, and there seemed to have been some problems
with the 1460 and the Hinote Ultra with timeouts.  Can this have been
the problem?   I wouldn't have expected the sysinstall program
to have already probed the CD-ROM.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.