this is a few days old. i got a reply saying to try floppies but from the INSTALL.txt under the amd64/5.3-REL it says: 1.3 Floppy Disk Image Instructions
Floppy disk based install is not supported on FreeBSD/amd64. like i said i played with bios settings and nothing really worked. can somebody help? thanks.. > hi all... > > i'm trying to install 5.3 on an amd machine... > i got the discs and they are ok but when i start the off the disk the boot > stops with BTX halted no matter which boot mode i chose. > i looked on google and i found a few posts about bios issues but non of > that helped - i couldn't find how to disable DMA. the only location i saw > the DMA mentioned was under PnP/PCI configurations => Resources Controlled > by in the bios but there the setting is Auto(ESCD). i tried al the options > there and it still stops at the same place... > > anybody can help?! > > thanks.... > > > -- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"