Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:44:47 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Telpiz Sorin <margelatto@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <44r6axw1mo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <948245.61083.qm@web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> (Telpiz Sorin's message of "Thu\, 12 Jun 2008 01\:55\:37 -0700 \(PDT\)") References: <948245.61083.qm@web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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Telpiz Sorin <margelatto@yahoo.com> writes: > =A0tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on=A0my > friend's=A0machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by > Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, > nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04! That is fine. > Besides, SYSINSTALL complains about the disk's geometry=A0.=20 Also probably not a problem; C/H/S geometries are rarely important these days. > The text > console works very slowly, though the machine=A0(ASUS motherboard) has > 2 Gigs of RAM and=A0a=A0good GeForce video board. For comparison, my old > IBM machine ( PentiumII , 128Mb RAM , 16Mb video memory ) runs Free > BSD much more faster. Could you help us fix the=A0trouble?=20 Can you quantify the slowness? This isn't much of an explanation for us to work with...
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