Hello If you have a connection to the internet you can install FreeBSD by retrieving the distribution through ftp interface.
If you can find a solution on this mailing try posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good Luck On Thursday 14 August 2003 07:43 pm, zteknofreak wrote: > i've been trying to install freebsd on a sony vaio pcg-n505ve for a few > hours now. i know that this is not the first time a problem like this > has passed this list [google tells me so], but the solutions posted here > are not working. on boot, btx sees disk0 as the internal hard drive, and > disk1 as the cdrom. the kernel boots and sysinstall starts. i can do > basic partition info, but when i ask it to load files from cd/dvd it > tells me that no cd/dvd devices were found. > > so i google. > > google tells me that things will work if i add 'set > hw.pcic.intr_path=3D"1"' and 'set hw.pcic.irq=3D"0"' too the boot > loader. so i do this, and it doesn't work. the only other thing that > google can tell me is to try: 'set hw.pcic.intr_path="1"' and 'set > hw.pcic.irq="0"' this renders the system worse than before. when this > configuration tries to boot, the system hangs after 'ata0: at 0x1f0 irq > 14 on atapci0' > > at this point i try xp just because. it works flawlessly. i'm so not > happy with that. > > can anyone help? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > unix: because rebooting is for adding new hardware. > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"