From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 2 01:00:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA21023 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 01:00:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.cpbx.net (dns.cpbx.net [205.216.214.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA21013 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 01:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from 205.216.214.129 (ppp0.cpbx.net [205.216.214.129]) by dns.cpbx.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id EAA06125 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 04:00:31 -0500 Message-ID: <31381C7E.2C31@dns.cpbx.net> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 04:01:34 -0600 From: Jerame Davis Reply-To: jdavi00@dns.cpbx.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: I need some help!!! X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to install freebsd on a Packard Bell with 8 MB Ram a 83 Mhz Pentium Overdrive processor and 2 ide HD...One is a gig and the other is 214 MB...the problem I am continually running into is as the installer is writing to the disks, an error will pop up that says I am experiencing an IRQ timeout error then it goes to wdunwedge which also fails....I am not a UNIX guru, but I am certain I am not doing anything wrong...the error occurs at different times during the process....I got as far as ftp and when it was writing the root filesystem it occured...Can you help out It would be appreciated.... Jerame Davis