From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 7:15:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-server.tampabay.rr.com (smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com [24.92.1.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFAEB37B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 07:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sbohm.yi.org (2492222hfc174.tampabay.rr.com [24.92.222.174]) by smtp-server.tampabay.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA25704 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:15:12 -0400 (EDT) From: degraz@sbohm.yi.org Received: from sbohm.yi.org [127.0.0.1] by sbohm.yi.org [127.0.0.1] with RAW (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.R) for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:04:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:04:35 -0400 Subject: FreeBSD Installation Problems To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: degraz@sbohm.yi.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Actual-From: degraz@sbohm.yi.org X-Mailer: WebPOP v2.0 Service Pack 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am a complete newbie at FreeBSD, trying to install on an IBM Aptiva, with a P166 w/MMX and 48MB of RAM. I have downloaded the FreeBSD ISO, and burned it to a CD, and have made the two boot disks for installation. The CD did not boot itself, so I fir t booted with the Kernel disk, which then asked for the msf root disk. From here, I choose Visual Setup, and setup my hardware options. When I continued setup, it gave me the dialog, "Probing Devices, this may take a moment," or something similar. At this point, the installation seems to lock. I have let it go for about 20 minutes and it does nothing. Is this a hardware issue, that FreeBSD will not support my hardware, or am I doing something wrong? I hope I don't get nailed to much on this for being a newbie, as I've heard this is common in with freebsd :) If you need anymore specifications on my hardware, just let me know.. Thank you, Travis Troyer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message