FreeBSD 5 on a laptop

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Graham
I am trying to install FReeBSD 5 on an inspiron 2500. Everytime I try to install it hangs after loading the kernel. I have looked into it and it seems that there is a problem with the default kernel and the devices on the laptop (sound card I believe)... How can I go about installing

FreeBSD 5 install problems

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Graham
Trying to install FreeBSD 5.0 on an inspiron 2500. I have 2.5GB of uninitialized space. When I boot of the cdrom it begins to load everything for the installation and gets stuck at pci2: PCI bus on pcib2 ... I have looked at the instructions for installing this and cant figure out what I