Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:22:45 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem with 8.0 Release Message-ID: <4D111AA5.8030903@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F7FF@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> References: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F7FF@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 12/21/2010 5:24 AM, Graeme Dargie wrote: > Hi list, > > > > I am trying to help a friend who is overseas install FreeBSD 8.0 i386. > Left to his own devices the install failed, so I ran through it with him > last night, all is fine till it gets to the root password screen where > the install just hangs. He is not very techy, all I could glean was the > system has an sis chipset and it previously ran windows 7 with no > problems, I am hoping to get a more detailed spec of the machine, but I > thought might make an initial enquiry to the list to see if anyone has > come across this behaviour before, or are there any obvious possible > causes ? Hard to say without more details as to why its hanging, but I would not bother with 8.0 as its quite old. Instead, try ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso There is wider hardware support and many, many bug fixes. ---Mike
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4D111AA5.8030903>