From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 21:47: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D369437B718 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:46:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 630AA6A90D; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:06:09 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:06:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick Clancy Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installation problems Message-ID: <20010304160609.G1664@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000e01c0a469$15fd0a40$6339fea9@chicadee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000e01c0a469$15fd0a40$6339fea9@chicadee>; from clinamen@gvi.net on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:08:00PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your paragraphs are all on one long line. On Saturday, 3 March 2001 at 23:08:00 -0600, Patrick Clancy wrote: > I have tried all day to install FreeBSD with no success. I'm > beginning to think that there must be a hardware problem. My system > is as follows: Dell Dimension XPS B866MHZ Pentium III, QuietKey > Keyboard, Microsoft Intellimouse, 256MB RDRAM, 3COM V.90 PCI > Telephony Modem, 48x Max Variable CD ROM, Dell P991 Trinitron > Monitor, 32MB DDR nVidia GeForce2 GTS 4X APG Graphics Card, 80GB > Ultra ATA Hard Drive (5400RPM),3COM 3C905C-TXM 10/100 Remote Wakeup > Network Card. > I can't access the Eratta.Txt or Trouble.Txt, I don't know files of that name. There are files ERRATA.TXT and TROUBLE.TXT, but those are different names. Where are you looking for them? What error message do you get? > but I have read pretty much everything else and have gone through > the install about 20 times. I can't think of any other varibles and > am down to thinking that it must be a hardware problem. I would > appreciate any information or help with this. It would help if you describe what you do and what happens. > I am trying to use the most standard, inclusive choices that are > available. Although I bought this release (4.1) only a month ago, I > see that 4.2 is now available. Since my hardware is pretty current, > perhaps the more recent release would be better at autodetecting. That shouldn't make any difference. FWIW, 4.3 will be out soon. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for some suggestions about how to describe your problem. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message