From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 19:11:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCD737BD07 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Received: from sporto.johnturner.com (w220.z208176108.det-mi.dsl.cnc.net [208.176.108.220]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA58947; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:17:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000725221012.00ad7100@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:11:16 -0400 To: "Ryan G. Coleman" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Turner Subject: Re: problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like flaky RAM to me. Any chance you can swap the RAM that's in there with some other RAM, and give it a try? In my experience, a CPU is either good or bad, period, not good sometimes/bad sometimes. HTH - John At 09:51 PM 7/25/00, Ryan G. Coleman wrote: >I've tried three times to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my system and everytime >it gives me the page fault, Syncing disks, automatic reboot in 15 seconds >message. Here are some system specs: > >Athlon 600 Mhz >128 Mb RAM >15 Gb HD > >Somehow I feel something is wrong with my system, I've built it myself, >but am pretty familiar with hardware and such. My real concern is that >similar things happen trying to install Linux Mandrake and debian >GNU/Linux, but only the debian errors are reprducible. > >AFAI can tell, windows crashes more or less the same as it used to, but it >takes 5+ tries to get it to boot properly. > >Anyone had similar problems or possible solutions? > >Ryan Coleman > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message