Installation hangs during "Archive extraction" phase (9.1)

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch <a at jenisch.at> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:16:32PM +0200, bw.mail.lists wrote:
> > You don't actually need to install ports.txz. All it does is populate
> > /usr/ports, but you can do that after install using portsnap as
> > documented in the handbook
> > (
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
> ):
> >
> > portsnap fetch
> > portsnap extract
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the hint. Now I could finish the installation (which takes
> like forever (speaking in terms of 2 hours which is pretty strange
> given the raw power of this machine)) however after rebooting the box
> behaves weird to say the last:
>
> I started out be entering "portsnap fetch". Everything runs fine up to
> the point when I see "Verifying snapshot integrity". Then the system
> completely comes to a grind. After sending the "portsnap fetch" to the
> background (^Z) and entering "top" the machine completely freezes
> without any indication as to why.
>
> I've already done a complete hardware diagnosis - everything OK.
>
> Any ideas on how to track this one down?
>

Don't install ports during installation, try using 8.4 or 9.1BETA1 instead


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Adam Vande More