This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes.
My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a fresh
disk for my shiny new compaq:
Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was
completed from cd safemode boot. She runs
Steve Franks wrote:
This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes.
My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a
fresh
disk for my shiny new compaq:
Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was
completed from cd
Thanks for that. Unfortunately, no change, but I'm going to start combing
device.hints for any devices my laptop doesn't have, and turn them all off,
maybe I'll get lucky.
Looks like I can install amd64 on it, but I don't think the
currently-running i386 6.1 release is the problem, you'd think
Correction: that may have been the issue: I removed the fdc fd, and
realized I had disabled sio0, not sio.0so for the future, it's that or
the floppy. I don't intend to re-enable the floppy, as I don't have one
anyway, so thanks for the leg-up!
Steve
On 1/6/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL
