Installation problem

2010-08-18 Thread Derek Schwartz
Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard drive was wiped clean. I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux Ubuntu Disk Utility, I changed it to {0-a5} which I heard was for

FreeBSD Downloading problem

2010-08-16 Thread Derek Schwartz
Hey, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell PC with Intel Pentium 4 processor. When I insert the CD, read error, 0x01 appears and nothing else happens, I've tried restarting and changing settings, but no luck. I'm going to try re-burning the CD any other way I can fix this error? Derek