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 thin

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 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 orig