From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 08:23:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC46D16A417 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:23:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mendobosco@yahoo.com) Received: from web32215.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32215.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9467713C467 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:23:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mendobosco@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 60326 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Jan 2008 07:56:49 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=L4/FDxki2IekF0P4DMI3qUGl3C3Jd+X/3xgeoAWYsWgbBPTDc/uuf1BmpoyOBQCvKwm2EWkN2wXquUjNreUOUViIjzUALeydSL1aNpzBx0zrQvNFBNoDlW6dn9VCAXmbCt93GXNNUWrnq1gvLg0y2BIPhtHTurgtH82tsVEayGw=; X-YMail-OSG: 3jYggfAVM1mwDX.ahbUacpQAqOa.esZuloMJc4Yn1s5oNdQ6sJ92YqnMAXqlF2Z.5heEZHn7yUTmp6rbQ_22f4yVy7TjTUjIpqiHmkjB3IRdgxC_g3c- Received: from [67.77.146.241] by web32215.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:56:49 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/818.31 YahooMailWebService/0.7.158.1 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:56:49 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Eaton To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <835218.59487.qm@web32215.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:23:30 -0000 Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the "bootonly" disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs