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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.172.3.52!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sysinstall / LPD Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 05:32:53 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33104705.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <33102a25.2463352@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35953 David B. Mansel wrote: First, most every time that I run /stand/sysinstall it locks up the system completely... can't even ping the box at this point. It may be due to not having the FreeBSD CD mounted - this is how things need to be, but I still want to run the program to do an FTP upgrade. Any ideas? [Fooling around with Navigator 4.0 - just watch as I get the following paragraph stuck into citation mode, unable to ever get it back out again :-)] That's really weird, that's all I can say. :-) All I can think is that some device in /dev is being opened by sysinstall during its "probe" pass, say a tape, CDROM, serial port or floppy, and for some strange reason on your system this causes a crash. You could perhaps minimize the chances of this by disabling every device in these systems you don't absolutely need. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.