Re: Installation problems

2007-10-03 Thread James
Hi Siraj, the first place to start looking is undoubtedly the CD itself. First, checksum your .iso image. If this passes, burn to a new CD and try again. Cheaper CD-R cds tend to have a lot of quality issues. James On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:41 +0100, Siraj Shaikh wrote: I am new to FreeBSD,

Re: Installation problems

2007-10-03 Thread Frank Staals
Siraj Shaikh wrote: I am new to FreeBSD, and am trying to install it. I have tried to installa on two separate machines, one a shuttlex xpc, and another an IBM laptop. Both times, I proceed, create the partitions and then get this message Unable to transfer the ... distribution from acd0 and

Re: Installation Problems

2004-11-16 Thread FrostyPup
My husband purchased Free BSD. I believe it is version. 5.3. He installed the disks and then entered his username and password. Then when he needs to sign in he again enters his username and password and nothing happens. He can't get into the program. Do you have any information to help

RE: Installation Problems

2004-11-16 Thread Subhro
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installation Problems My husband purchased Free BSD. I believe it is version. 5.3. He installed the disks

Re: Installation Problems

2004-11-16 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 05:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My husband purchased Free BSD. I believe it is version. 5.3. He installed the disks and then entered his username and password. Then when he needs to sign in he again enters his username and password and nothing happens. He can't

Re: Installation problems

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Caley
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Brownsea (pb) writes: pb ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting pb ata0: resetting devices .. pb And then it just hangs. This one is getting popular. There is at least one disk controller chipset out there which FBSD 4.X doesn't understand. If

Re: Installation problems

2004-05-28 Thread Paul Brownsea
OK, I was going to try turning off DMA, but it won't. There isn't an actual setting in the CMOS setup for it. After consulting the manual it tells me to disable PCI IDE busmaster, so I did. But DMA is still enabled so it still does the same. Should I just give up or is there anything else to

Re: Installation problems

2004-05-27 Thread Scott Kupferschmidt
Hello, The problem is your motherboard has a junk ide controller that FreeBSD does not support DMA on properly. If you disable DMA in the BIOS, FreeBSD will boot and install properly. Sincerely, Scott Kupferschmidt ISPrime, Inc. 866.502.4678 ext. 3 AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249 On Thu,

Re: Installation problems-Fatal trap 12 error

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:16:29AM -0800, Craig Caughlin wrote: I'm brand new to FreeBSD (but I've worked with Unix and Linux a little). I'm trying to install FreeBSD, but I constantly get this Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode error. I don't know where to begin to try and solve

Re: Installation problems

2003-11-02 Thread Jud
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:34:39 +, Adrian Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1 onto a blank system. The system is a Soltek Cubic system with an Athlon 2600+, 512MB DDR RAM, DVD drive and CD-R/W as well as an 80GB HDD and a 40GB one. I have followed

Re: installation problems (was: empty)

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, please read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:43:18AM +, Mike Dem wrote: Hey I Decided To Get your Unix Based OS Because I need More of a Challeng I Do Have Two Questions, First Can I install FreeBSD without using Partition magic Of course you can

Re: Installation Problems

2003-01-31 Thread taxman
I had thought this was in the early adopters guide (you did read that right?), but doesn't 5.0 take more memory to install than 4.7 did? I don't know if that would cause your problem or not, but it seems possible. Try installing 4.7, that should work fine, if not, let us know what problem