RE: FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X installation problem

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug>]

Mmm, sounds like some major hardware problems, or incompatibility.

You will need to check your RAM, motherboard, cards and drives [HDD and
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM].

For the 80GB, you may need to make sure your motherboard supports it. If
not, download the latest BIOS for your motherboard chipset and you should be
rolling.

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer
Africa Online Uganda
5th Floor, Commercial Plaza
7 Kampala Rd,
Tel:   +256-41-258143
Fax:   +256-41-258144
E-mail: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug
Web:     www.africaonline.co.ug
 

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From: owner-afnog at afnog.org [mailto:owner-afnog at afnog.org] On Behalf Of
ziggy at one2net.co.ug
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 6:53 PM
To: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X installation problem



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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