On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:39:43PM +0100, Andrew Walrond wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 from downloaded isos. > > I have the i386 isos, but the first machine I tried was an Asus SK8N > motherboard with Amd Opteron and 2Gb ram. The various hardware is shown as > supported on the Hardware list; notably the Promise SATA150 TX2 disk > controller. > > Although this is an Amd64, I assume the 386 version should still install OK? > > Anyhow, I booted from cd disk 1, went through the various questions, auto > partitioned and it began "Extracting ... into / directory". This went well > for a few minutes, lots of disk activity, then > Panic - page fault > CPUID 0 > > and was informed that the machine would reboot after 15seconds. > > I tried again, this time booting without ACPI, with the same results. > > Any suggestions? > > Andrew Walrond
Perhaps ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/5.2.1/ will work better for you. Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
