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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:22:23 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
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To: Ray Stewart <monman_2000@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation problems...
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Ray Stewart wrote:
> 
> I bought FreeBSD product from Best Buy and tried to
> load it onto my packard bell computer. The
> installation was going great I got a blue screen
> showing the progress bar and then it hung up at 7% and
> never recovered. I had to power off the machine. Know
> when I try and reload the software it say no cdrom
> found to install from can you help please.
> I meet all the hardware requirements.
> Thanks for your time regarding this matter.

Sounds like your CD-ROM burned out during the install. Have you
attempted to use it with another OS to verify that it's still working?
How old is this hardware?

-Bill


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