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From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /stand/sysinstall  hangs!
Date: 29 May 1997 15:30:16 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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 Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de> wrote:
> 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.

This was mentioned here some time ago -  it's a bug in the 2.2.1 sysinstall.
IIRC you can select and install up to 4 packages without sysinstall
hanging, then leave sysinstall and start it again for the next four
packages... :-/
Or you do it manually with pkg_add. Or you get another version
of sysinstall from an ftp server - I'm using the one from a 3.0-SNAP
and it installed packages off of an 2.2.1-CD just fine.

Bye, Philipp

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P. Mergenthaler   http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/