Install freeze while or immediately after finish copying the ports-collection

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:22:34PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote:
> If i just install a minimal system as Brandon suggested, the 
> installation process works properly (except that disk geometry allegedly 
> wrong, but the system-guessed values are correct for LBA mode).

Well, that's something.

> >How do you know that the network card doesn't work? If you go to the
> >emergency shell (alt-F4, IIRC) and type 'ifconfig', does it show a
> >network interface with 'media: Ethernet'?
> >
> 
> Yes. The card is detected and also configured while the install process, 
> but every try to connect to a ftp server fails.

Do you have a router and/or firewall? If so, is it configured correctly
to let ftp from this machine through?

<snip>
> So is it possible to instruct the sysinstall to write its bootloader to 
> the mbr of the master harddisk and detect and conigure winxp for dual boot?

I think this is covered in the Handbook.

Roland
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