Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Jack Raats
From: SDH Admin ad...@stardothosting.com How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Good old fashioned pen + paper (as long as it's not too long). Never fails. Main problem is: ad0: FreeBSD check1 failed I googled but didn't find any solution. Does anyone have a clue where to find the

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net writes: From: SDH Admin ad...@stardothosting.com How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Good old fashioned pen + paper (as long as it's not too long). Never fails. Main problem is: ad0: FreeBSD check1 failed I googled but didn't find any solution.

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Dec-24 17:29:05 +0100, Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net wrote: Main problem is: ad0: FreeBSD check1 failed This is produced when the ATA subsystem is trying to read RAID metadata off the disk and just means it failed to find any. It's not an error. Can you post more context please. --

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Dec-23 20:32:38 +0100, Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net wrote: Can you try to paste exactly what was on the screen before the freeze for both 6.4 and 7.0? How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Take a photo and put it up somewhere (http://imagebin.ca/ if nowhere else). If scroll

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net wrote: Hi, At this moment I have problems installing FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 7.0. After booting from CD the system I get the menu. I have tried all possible options. The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-23 Thread Jack Raats
- Original Message - From: SDH Admin ad...@stardothosting.com The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) (acd0) The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB Can you try to

RE: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-23 Thread SDH Admin
The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) (acd0) The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB Can you try to paste exactly what was on the screen before the freeze for both 6.4 and

RE: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-23 Thread SDH Admin
How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Good old fashioned pen + paper (as long as it's not too long). Never fails. --- Kevin K. Systems Administrator www.stardothosting.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 6.2 - No floppy devices found!

2007-11-21 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 07:32:36 pm Cameron Stuart wrote: Hardware: Maxtron AMD opteron with 3ware 4 port PCI express SATA II raid 5 Problem Description: The 3ware driver must be loaded into the kernel using KLD, but the floppy device cannot be found However, the drive exists, and is

Re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer

2007-05-18 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Bertrand wrote: It's great you resolved it, and now it's archived. We've all been there. That's why I always try to post my resolution to the listserve, newsgroup, or forum that was helping me out. I don't want someone to read along

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-17 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-17 Thread Chris Slothouber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5.

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-17 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-17 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL

re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer

2007-05-17 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Chris Slothouber said, it's probably an issue with the floppies. My resolution was to remove the hard drive, place it into a machine I knew was capable of installing freeBSD and installing it. Am now in the process of putting it back into its

Re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm a bit frustrated, but what can you do? It would be impossible for the freeBSD team to cater to all the corner cases. You can move the HD as you did ;) Technically, if you really wanted, you could be the impossible FreeBSD team member who reaches into the corner you've needed catered to.

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-16 Thread Eric Mesa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Barnett wrote: Do you have another CD Drive you could use, just to get it installed? Another thing you could try is an FTP install.. I do that all the time and works good if you have faster internet connection. -J I'm not 100% sure, but

Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Slothouber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2007-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
s.moyzis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G: which contains the entire C:drive for backup, and a

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2007-03-08 Thread Paulette McGee
--- Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s.moyzis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G:

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2007-03-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:30:43AM -0600, s.moyzis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G: which

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0

2006-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to provide more information on your system such as what disk controller(s) it has and what hard disks. -Derek At 07:24 AM 4/16/2006, Mohamad Babaei wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the

RE: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0

2006-04-16 Thread fbsd
try trying turn plug-n-play and power management in the pc bios. post the boot probe log here -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mohamad Babaei Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:24 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems Installing

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

2003-08-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0700, R B wrote: hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

2003-08-22 Thread Armand Passelac
I'm not an FreeBSD expert (as you I'm coming from linux). But when I installed my FreeBSD on my old PC, I used these commands to preparing boot floppies : (On linux ...) : dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just fine, but when I try

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Metin
Hello Bruno, Thursday, January 2, 2003, 6:48:13 PM, you wrote: I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba 3501XA

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:48:13PM +0100, Bruno Campanelli wrote: I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba