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From: Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall  hangs!
Date: 29 May 1997 15:44:27 +0200
Organization: Universitaetsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Berlin, Germany
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Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> At which point exactly does sysinstall hang? When you chose the cdrom
> as installation medium?
> Is it a SCSI or ATAPI IDE drive?  How exactly do the system messages
> look like (you can view them again with the command dmesg)?

I tried to update my system from 2.1.7 to 2.2.1 with the CD. The normal
process went ok, but when I tried a postinstalling of the packages
sysinstall hangs itself after a few minutes. I got this at work with
a Toshiba ATAPI CDROM and at home with a Pioneer SCSI CDROM.

Bye,
	Udo

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