Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B I am using freebsd 5.4 cd's to install. I am able to create partitions and

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort On 10/25/05, Jayesh Jayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old H

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
I am installing freebsd on this machine for the first time. Anyhow i have installed freebsd on another machine with out any problem which has AMD athlon 2.8 GHz, 256 MB DDR ram, 40 GB SEAGATE HDD. I just wanted to use this machine as my gateway machine which will not have any monitor or so connec

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: > an update to the issue. > > the error what i get is > > panic : page fault > Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fa

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the dis

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jayesh Jayan wrote: If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Yes, probably, that's definitely a decent idea and worth a try. This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Thank you I will try it out and let you know the output :) But it is not a proper thing to do . anyhow will give it a try On 10/25/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jayesh Jayan wrote: > > If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have > already >

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: > > an update to the issue. > > > > the error what i get is > > > > panic : page fault > > Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. > > Automatic reboot in 15 s

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:17:02 +0530 Jayesh Jayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have > already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that > machine. > > Will it work ?? Provided that it has everything it needs in the

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-10 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, Thank you all. I did install on another machine and shifted the HDD to the old machine. Initially it didn't work. With the help of the archives and mails from you people I could solve the issue. Now it is up and running :) On 11/9/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vulpes Vel