From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 21:41:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4152C15F69 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:41:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwakers@home.com) Received: from belgarath ([24.5.221.231]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990828044057.ZMSO29524.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@belgarath>; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:40:57 -0700 Message-ID: <05b201bef10f$d7287970$e7dd0518@mwakers.net> From: "Michael W. Akers" To: Cc: References: <37C7548C.4A23CCE@sdc.org> Subject: Re: installation problems Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:43:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, Until someone with FreeBSD3.2-STABLE on Aptiva weighs in, you might be running into a hardware incompatibility problem. Go to www.freebsd.org and find the hardware section. look up all of the major building blocks used to build the computer. i.e. Manufacturer of the HD, CD-ROM, I/O cards ... etc. The reason I point this out is that IBM for some reason is following the herd when it comes to manufacturing non-standard hardware in order to keep customers coming back for upgrades. I find that if you go out of your way to make sure that your computer is 100% PC CLONE then just about ANY os will install/load properly. Also the Aptiva is just about one of the most unreliable computers in the market today. Of 100 Aptiva's that I have personally interacted with 100% of them have died or had major hardware failures within 3 months of purchase, 100% of them had repeats of same hardware problems within 3-6 months after repair. I may get flamed for this but I have already had my fingers burned by IBM, HP, DELL, and Gateway over the hardware incompatibility issues. If the mother board is not 100% Intel compatible, you are asking for problems. I wish you luck! Mike Akers M. Akers Enterprises To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message