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Operating Systems BSD FreeBSD Installation problems Post 302185523 by Techmonkey on Tuesday 15th of April 2008 07:33:13 AM

04-15-2008

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FreeBSD Installation problems

Hi all, I'm new to the world of Unix/Linux (though not to computing in general) and I'm having a few issues installing FreeBSD (v6.2).

Firstly, I realise that it's not the most user-friendly of distros, especially for newbies, but it's what I'm required to install so unfortunately I have to stick with that. However I am hoping to eventually dual-boot with something like Ubuntu to try and make learning a bit easier.

At the moment all I'm trying to do is install the product. The CD boots fine and it has been used to successfully install FreeBSD on another computer, so we know it's not a dodgy disc or anything.

Once booted, we just let it select the default install option and it goes and starts checking what the system has. According to everything I've seen in manuals and online, the last thing it checks is the hard drives and then it *should* say "Trying to mount kernel" or similar.

On the computer I'm having issues with, it detects and correctly identifies the hard drives and then, before it gets to saying "Trying to mount kernel" it hangs. Definitely hangs as we've left it while watching a 2hr film just to make sure - no CD drive activity, no HDD drive activity at all. We've taken everything out that was not "essential" (i.e. just leaving mobo, CPU, RAM, gfx card, HDD and CD drive) and it still hangs at the same place.

I haven't been able to find anything online and most of the friends I have that know about this sort of stuff are more into Linux than Unix and say they don't know enough to help. I'm really stuck with what to try next.

The computer is as follows:
Mobo - Asus A7N8X-E
CPU - Athlon XP 2600+
RAM - 2 x 1GB DDR2
HDD - 250GB Western Digital
CD/DVD drive - not sure of make
Gfx card - Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro

If anyone has any suggestions of what I could try to get this to install, I'd appreciate it!

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FREEBSD-VERSION(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					FREEBSD-VERSION(1)

NAME

     freebsd-version -- print the version and patch level of the installed system

SYNOPSIS

     freebsd-version [-ku]

DESCRIPTION

     The freebsd-version utility makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of the installed kernel and / or userland.

     The following options are available:

     -k 	 Print the version and patch level of the installed kernel.  Unlike uname(1), if a new kernel has been installed but the system
		 has not yet rebooted, freebsd-version will print the version and patch level of the new kernel.

     -u 	 Print the version and patch level of the installed userland.  These are hardcoded into freebsd-version during the build.

     If both -k and -u are specified, freebsd-version will print the kernel version first, then the userland version, on separate lines.  If nei-
     ther is specified, it will print the userland version only.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     The freebsd-version utility should provide the correct answer in the vast majority of cases, including on systems kept up-to-date using
     freebsd-update(8), which does not update the kernel version unless the kernel itself was affected by the latest patch.

     To determine the name (and hence the location) of a custom kernel, the freebsd-version utility will attempt to parse
     /boot/defaults/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf, looking for definitions of the kernel and bootfile variables, both with a default value of
     ``kernel''.  It may however fail to locate the correct kernel if either or both of these variables are defined in a non-standard location,
     such as in /boot/loader.rc.

ENVIRONMENT

     ROOT  Path to the root of the filesystem in which to look for loader.conf and the kernel.

EXAMPLES

     To determine the version of the currently running userland:

	   /bin/freebsd-version -u

     To inspect a system being repaired using a live CD:

	   mount -rt ufs /dev/ada0p2 /mnt
	   env ROOT=/mnt /mnt/bin/freebsd-version -ku

SEE ALSO

     uname(1), loader.conf(5), freebsd-version(8)

HISTORY

     The freebsd-version command appeared in FreeBSD 10.0.

AUTHORS

     The freebsd-version utility and this manual page were written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>.

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