Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread adrian esquivel
Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a 40-conductor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
adrian esquivel wrote: Sorry for the last message... Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a 40-conductor IDE cable. So this means that I need to change it for an UDMA (80 conductor)?? Oh,

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-27 Thread John Murphy
adrian esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors). Make sure your connectors are the better 80 conductor ones. Thanks John but

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-27 Thread David Stanford
I'm sorry, I think I didn't explain it very well... When I choose the media type, a message is shown warning that '...this is the last chance... we can take no responsabillity. I hit 'ok' and then a message appears saying 'writing partitions...' and a few seconds later appears one message saying

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread David Stanford
I've got a Maxtor of 60GB as primary master. My geometry is wrongly reported by the installation program, it reports a geometry of 119108/16/63 while the BIOS reports one of 1024/240/63. If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. I've installed several times

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread adrian esquivel
If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem. However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your disk in the fdisk utility during install. I'm confused. At what point are

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread Rafael Aquino
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:53:31 -0600 Subject: Re: help installing FreeBSD If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. I've installed several times seeing this error

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread John Murphy
adrian esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I get when I hit Alt+F2 DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
Igor Robul wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:36:08AM +, Robert Slade wrote: There are some minor issues with nvida video 3d cards but there are nvida drivers for BSD. ATI cards are a bit more of a problem. In both cases search the mailing list archives the info is there. I dont

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-15 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:04:01PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: 1) once you installed the graphics/dri , how do you enable them in xorg.conf? Unfortunately I cannot tell you about configuration you need for 855G, but at least you need load kernel module for 855G, and place Load dri Load glx to

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-13 Thread Igor Robul
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:36:08AM +, Robert Slade wrote: There are some minor issues with nvida video 3d cards but there are nvida drivers for BSD. ATI cards are a bit more of a problem. In both cases search the mailing list archives the info is there. I dont see any problems with ATI

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-10 Thread Ken Stevenson
Alexandre Adao wrote: I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure? Thanks for any help. --Alex Read the following: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html --

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Slade
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 22:24, Alexandre Adao wrote: I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure? Thanks for any help. --Alex Alex, Welcome Every thing you should need to know is in the