--- Graham Menhennitt wrote: > Rob wrote: > > >Another reminder: when I try to install 5.3 on this > >PC, I get a "no disk found" error at a very early > >stage of the installation procedure. I hope to > >investigate this further in a not-so-near > future.... > > > > > Rob, > > I have a similar problem with 5.3 although I'm not > doing a new install - I'm upgrading from an earlier > 5.X. Can you please try installing a 5.X > from December last year or earlier. Actually, you > don't need to install anything - I'd just like to > know whether it can see the disk. I've > faised PR kern/79332 about it which contains two > possible fixes.
Thank you. The computer is my brother's old Pentium-1 (60 MHz); he and the computer are at the other end of the world. Only when my brother has spare time, we open a live chat connection and I assist him with certain console tasks (he is not at all a Unix/FreeBSD person). However, most of the time I manage this PC remotely (it's now running 4-Stable flawlessly). At some point, we may try once again to install a 5.X version; it should be a straightforward install procedure, because too much freaky stuff might be too complex to explain to a non-Unix, non-FreeBSD person.... My plan for next time, is to use a serial console during install, so that I can receive the kernel output to get a clue why 5.X cannot find the disk, which 4-Stable does find easily. I may travel to my brother's home some time this year; then I will do whatever freaky tricks are needed to find out why 5.X is not installing properly. Regards, Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
