On 12/21/2010 5:24 AM, Graeme Dargie wrote: > Hi list, > > > > I am trying to help a friend who is overseas install FreeBSD 8.0 i386. > Left to his own devices the install failed, so I ran through it with him > last night, all is fine till it gets to the root password screen where > the install just hangs. He is not very techy, all I could glean was the > system has an sis chipset and it previously ran windows 7 with no > problems, I am hoping to get a more detailed spec of the machine, but I > thought might make an initial enquiry to the list to see if anyone has > come across this behaviour before, or are there any obvious possible > causes ?
Hard to say without more details as to why its hanging, but I would not bother with 8.0 as its quite old. Instead, try ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso There is wider hardware support and many, many bug fixes. ---Mike _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
