Re: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-23 Thread Vinny
Chris Pratt wrote: On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Vinny wrote: Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: "Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Hal

Re: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I figured would be respectable. a lot of. Downloaded the ISO files, burned CDs of them and when I try to run them it starts to boot and then freezes tighter than a muskrat's

Re: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-20 Thread Fbsd1
Vinny wrote: Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: "Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I figured would be respectable. Do

Re: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Vinny wrote: Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: "Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I fig

Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-20 Thread Vinny
Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: "Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I figured would be respectable. Downloaded the I