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Cc: Eileen Wasson <eileen_wasson@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: I386 Installation
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On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:47, Eileen Wasson wrote:
> I'm a newbie to unix and freebsd. I'm trying to follow
> your documentation and keep failing the install. I
> have an HP COmpaq desktop dc5100 MT and it will NOT
> detect my iso image for the i386. i did not see it in
> your hardware list.htm. does that mean it's not
> supported or do i need new drivers? if i put it in an
> older ibm, the cd works. i also tried using your
> floppy method and that failed as well. it said no
> boot/loader. this box has xp loaded it already.
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ~Eileen
>
> __________________________________________________

You need to burn that iso to a cd, then you can boot from it and it'll 
go into install. 

It looks like your computer came with an 80GB hard drive. Do you have 
only 1 hard drive, or do you have 2? If only 1, are you planning on 
over-writing what's presently installed?

Which iso image do you have?

Don