5.4 installation trouble

[James Heck]

I have a toshiba satelite a25 laptop running windows xp right now 
pentium 3 with 512mb ram, with 40 gb unpartitioned space (35 or so has 
been reserved for bsd). I made 3 .iso's from nero, taken from the files 
on www.freebsd.org. None of them allow me to actually load into the 
install portion of the process. 1 or 2 seconds after bsd tries to load, 
and a bunch of text shows up, it comes to this: ata0: channel #0 on 
atapci0. When this comes up, the cd in the drive stops spinning and 
nothing else happens- i am forced to reboot. 

I have brief experiences with mandrake 10, but im mostly familiar with 
windows. I cant wait to get into bsd so if you guys have any input on 
this issue, please let me know. and thanks alot!

James

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no user interface

[james heck]

I just installed 5.2.1 via download onto cdr media. I left about 10 gigs 
open for freebsd, and left 9 for my win2000. the dual boot works fine on my 
dell laptop, however when i go to load freebsd 5.2.1, i cant get into a 
graphical interface. Instead it stays in a dos-like interface with 
commands only. It recognizes my user name and the admin name of root, but 
there is only a command line and no background. i installed cd1, i have a 
boot only and a second disc which i have not installed. please point me in 
the correct direction

james heck
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