I agree, but I might start pulling parts and see if it works then. swap video cards if you can, etc.
On Jul 22, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Rich, if you can't get either the installation CD or live-file-system CD to > boot (FreeBSD), maybe your computer is allergic to FreeBSD? I've had that > problem with both FreeBSD and NetBSD on the older computer (Cx486DX-2 at > 66 MHz; 1.2 GB hard drive). One thing that could possibly help is if you > could get a custom installation kernel or running kernel, but you'd need > a different computer to build it on. > > Any way to cross-compile a FreeBSD kernel from NetBSD or Linux? Does anybody > know? NetBSD guide tells how to make customized installation kernels and > media, but I see nothing like that for FreeBSD. > > You might read the sysinstall man page from FreeBSD web site. Under NOTES > > This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will eventu- > ally be replaced. > > Under BUGS, toward the end > > This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its expira- > tion date and is greatly in need of death. > > I guess you and I both agree on this last statement. I also have to say that > splitting the installation sets into 1392 KB chunks like base.aa, base.ab, > and so on, is much less user-friendly and more error-prone than one .tgz or > .tbz file for each installation set: base.tgz, etc.tgz, man.tgz and so on. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"