install is hanging

Raphael Marmier raphael at computer-rental.ch
Fri Apr 11 15:18:54 PDT 2003


At boot, choose the visual kernel config editor and remove (disable) 
the pccard driver. I suppose it should be find then.

This change will stay after install. See the handbook for more nfo on 
this.

Raphael

Le vendredi, 11 avr 2003, à 22:21 Europe/Zurich, Mike Donovan a écrit :

> When trying to install Freebsd 4.6 via CD on my old Dell desktop it 
> stalls
> on the
> "Probing port, please wait (this may take a while)..." window.  Hitting
> alt -> F2 I see that the the system hangs each time at the line "DEBUG 
> Can't
> open PC-card controller /dev/card0."   The system is not a laptop.
>
> Any help is appreciated.  The CDs with FreeBSD handbook cost me $70.  
> I'd
> hate to find out it won't work on this system.
>
> The computer sytem:
>
> 200MHz Pentium MMX Mini Tower
>
> 64 MB ram
>
> Video card: Matrox Millenium PCI Video Board w/4 MB WRAM
>
> Hard Drive: 3.2GB EIDE hard drive
>
> Iomega Zip Drive
>
> CD Rom: 12-16x EIDE CD-rom
>
> NIC: asante nic-pci
>
> Modem: US robotics x2 telephony 33.6/56k
>
>
>
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