Re: Variety pack of problems installing 5.3-REL on a HP Pavilion XE746

2004-12-18 Thread Toomas Aas
J. Seth Henry wrote: It crapped out on /rescue. On the SCSI disk, /rescue is 3.5MB. When I checked the ATA drive after stopping the copy, the directory was at 95MB (and the filesystem hopelessly full at 109%). I tried again using copy with the same results. Then, I tar'ed the folder, and

Variety pack of problems installing 5.3-REL on a HP Pavilion XE746

2004-12-17 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys, I recently attempted to install FreeBSD 5.3-REL on a HP Pavilion XE746. This system contains a TriGem Cognac+ mainboard, based on the Intel i810 chipset. For the curious, it is running the HP branded 3.0.7 BIOS firmware. ACPI is enabled be default, and can't be disabled - so that could