Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-13 Thread Joseph Olatt
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-12 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On 10 Oct 2008 at 22:08, Brian wrote: Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:17:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People will use whatever gets the job done for them. If it doesn't, users *will* switch to another operating system, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Why? Because reality states: solving problems is

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
they're committing a sin by using another operating system. Open source is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the job done, and Linux does, then use Linux! If Windows works for you, use Windows! There's absolutely no shame in that. Blind, one-sided except when

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? This information is too vague. We need to know *exactly*: 1) What

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:44:03PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: they're committing a sin by using another operating system. Open source is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the job done, and Linux does, then use Linux! If Windows works for you, use Windows!

Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-10 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of curiosity, I downloaded and ran Ubuntu 8.x, and it recognized all of my hardware

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-10 Thread Brian
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? I've been trying for a week or so now, with no luck. Just out of curiosity, I downloaded and ran Ubuntu 8.x, and it