Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

2006-09-04 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
I have an OLD machine (from 1996) that's been running FreeBSD for about 8 years now steady and reliable. It has gone through several versions and was running 4.11 untill today when I decided to make a fresh 6.1 install. When booting from the installation CD the only way I can make it skip a lot

Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

2006-09-04 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
I just downloaded version 4.11 from the FreeBSD ftp archives, burnt a boot CD and tried to reinstall the system via FTP from the archives. This worked perfect. No problems. I guess this means it's not a hardware problem, but rather some changes made to newer versions of FreeBSD. Anyone know

RE: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

2006-09-04 Thread Bob
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Widerøe Andersen Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 6:47 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine I just downloaded version 4.11 from the FreeBSD ftp archives, burnt a boot CD and tried to reinstall

Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

2006-09-04 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
] Behalf Of Andreas Widerøe Andersen Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 6:47 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine I just downloaded version 4.11 from the FreeBSD ftp archives, burnt a boot CD and tried to reinstall the system via FTP from