From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 25 17:00:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1BA16A428 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:00:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1375643D46 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:00:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB5D5D78; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:00:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 64272-06; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:00:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-76-130.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.76.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79ED75D40; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:00:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <435E64AC.5060409@mac.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:00:28 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jayesh Jayan References: <20051025135801.GA66887@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4 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: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:00:27 -0000 Jayesh Jayan wrote: > If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already > installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. > > Will it work ?? Yes, probably, that's definitely a decent idea and worth a try. > This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine > > I can go till the step of Choosing distribution > > After I choose the distribution it starts the installation > > it shows transffering ...... in a blue screen with a progress bar. > > it then transfers 32 of 33 chunks > > and then it comes up with the error mentioned before. Sometimes this is simply a problem with the CD being dirty or not being read correctly. This might also indicate your hardware is a little flaky. The AMD Athlons are fine processors, but the earlier AMD K6 and Cyrix CPUs are a bit less reliable and some contained interesting hardware flaws (like with the L2 cache). -- -Chuck