I have noted success stories from some who have installed FreeBSD on Compaq Laptops similar to mine: Compaq Armada 7400, 6.2 gig drive, 128 mb RAM.
I purchased the 5.3 (2) CD, (1) DVD set and have tried multiple times to use CD 1 to install. All attempts fail after providing these message: 1) Early in the process: "ad0: Failure Read_DMA timed out" (this msg is repeated 3-4 times) I select a standard install, giving the entire drive to FreeBSD No MBR needed...don't want to accomodate other OS's 2) Soon I get; "Writing partition information to drive ad0" followed by: "Error Unable to write data to disk ad0" and then: "Couldn't make filesystem properly, aborting" Responding to some other user sites, I tried doing a boot from my Win backup rescue boot disk and ran FDISK to apply a single DOS partition as I had read that this might help.....didn't seem to. Results as before. Any ideas available as to what I might try next ?? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"