Re: Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-11 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 11/11/2007, at 1:55 AM, Olivier GARNIER wrote: Hi, I tried with FreeBSD and FreeSBIE when I received my vostro 1700 (on septembre), and the network wasn't working well. Network, Some Xorg problems and so on ... So I installed Ubuntu 7.04 witch was the less worth (network/video worked

Re: Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-10 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 10/11/2007, at 1:57 PM, McCy Ron wrote: I was able to get 6.2 to install on a Vostro with stock BIOS settings but couldn't get the system to recognize the network card. network. Just for reference - Knoppix, Ubuntu, FreesBie live CDs, and a straight install of Ubuntu 7.04 didn't work

RE: Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-10 Thread Olivier GARNIER
Hi, I tried with FreeBSD and FreeSBIE when I received my vostro 1700 (on septembre), and the network wasn't working well. Network, Some Xorg problems and so on ... So I installed Ubuntu 7.04 witch was the less worth (network/video worked with some adaptations). Now I've got an Ubuntu 7.10 witch

Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting

Install problems on Dell 'Vostro'

2007-11-09 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting

Re: Install problems on Dell Vostro

2007-11-09 Thread McCy Ron
Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before