From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 2:52:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail10.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail10.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADD937B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from cc796063-a ([65.2.219.169]) by femail10.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010115105206.XGPH16074.femail10.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cc796063-a>; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:52:06 -0800 Message-ID: <01ff01c07ee2$f76b7fe0$a9db0241@cc796063-a.union1.nj.home.com> From: "Abraham T. Rooter" To: "Ray Stewart" , Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation problems... Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:04:43 -0500 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 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ray, I always have to respond to these types of emails when I see them pass through. Please don't spend your money buying something that is free. Buy yourself a new gadget or a lot of caffeine(you'll need it during those late nights :-)). As for your problem, I'd suggest doing some research on packard bell machines as far as BIOS specifics, proprietary information,etc. I know some folks were having troubles installing Linux/FreeBSD on some of the older Compaq's, so it's worth looking into. If all else fails, call up Packard Bell and ask them what they'd do. "My machine errors and says such and such when I try to do this and that, what could be wrong?" They'll most likely have an answer for you(ask for Tier 2 support), or they'll offer to take the machine in themselves and fix it. Those are basically some of the best options available that I can think of at the moment. Perhaps someone else has a more colorful solution. Regards, Kris -----Original Message----- From: Ray Stewart To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:09 AM Subject: FreeBSD Installation problems... >I bought FreeBSD product from Best Buy and tried to >load it onto my packard bell computer. The >installation was going great I got a blue screen >showing the progress bar and then it hung up at 7% and >never recovered. I had to power off the machine. Know >when I try and reload the software it say no cdrom >found to install from can you help please. >I meet all the hardware requirements. >Thanks for your time regarding this matter. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! >http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message