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From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
To: Michael MacKinnon <mackinnon.m@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Install Hell...
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I would have to say it is a hardware failure.  Try with a different
hard drive.  You tried it with two different systems, FreeBSD and Linux
and it did not after many tries.

You must be pretty sure it is not the software.  Now you have to
troubleshoot the hardware.

Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com

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On Sun, 7 May 2000, Michael MacKinnon wrote:

> Hi there, 
> I've been trying to install FreeBSD for about two weeks
> now, and I've been having absolutely no luck whatsoever.
> 
> I'm trying to install version 3.1 from the Walnut Grove CDs.
> 
> Everything appears to go just fine until it tries to set up 
> the files system (when it uses the newfs command).
> Then I get page faults, lockups, and reboots (oh my!).
> Any changes I try to make just seem to leave me with a different error 
> in the same place.
> I've even tried to install Linux and it fails on the filesystem,too.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Details on my system:
> 
> Celeron 466
> Award BIOS
> 32MB RAM
> ATAPI CD-ROM / DVD player (Pioneer)
> 10 Gig Western Digital HD
> (also tried a Maxtor 4Gig and a Maxtor 400MB)
> 
> Extra question:
> should I use LBA, Normal, or Large in the BIOS?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help...
> Michael MacKinnon
> 



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