FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X installation problem

[<ziggy at one2net.co.ug>]

hey guys

i am trying to install Freebsd on a box which had win2k proffesional and
started acting up i.e rebooting itself , it has been working fine for
~1.5years, everything slowly started dying my MUA died, IE died and it just
continued to reboot itself, i tried to repair the OS with a win2k disk but
that didnt work much some *.dll's refused to install :(, anyway now i have
been trying to install Freebsd but i am not having much fun doing it, i
have tried 5.0 ,everytime i am installing the packages some just fail to
install and i cant basically do much with the system i even tried
a "Minimal install" didnt work out :( , tried 4.2Fbsd when it is extracting
into /usr/src almost everything fails and it is asking wether it should
retry which also doesnt work much, 4.7Fbsd when extracting to /usr/src i
get: "Panic: page fault  syncing disks" then it reboots, could i have
messed RAM?, i also tried SuSE 8.1 i get segmentation faults :(, and i am
not willing to try windows again cause i am not looking forward to having
anymore problems, anyone know what i should look at. Should i maybe switch
my RAM if that would help anything. Ooh i btw i had 3 40Gig disks in this
box they all fine and working , i decided to get one 80Gig and start a new
install and the above is what i got, i have a P4 motherboard with 512MB
RAM .

all help is highly appreciated

david



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