Hi people, I am Tom and I have been attempting to install FreeBSD 7.0 that came on dvd with the magazine. I put the dvd in the drive and boot, the boot screen appears with the options default, acpi disabled, safe mode, etc, I then select default. The hardware probing/detecting scrolls by and then comes to a halt with the following line:
GEOM_LABLE: Lable for provider acd0 is is09660/FreeBSD 7.
I have also on other boot attempts tried acpi disabled, safe mode with the same outcome. Have selected single user on another attempt and sysinstall program boots, after going through setting up the hard drive and paritions durring the install of the os the following error occurs numerous times:
Write failure on transfer! (write 0 bytes of 1425408 bytes) 100%
Just wondering if this has occured to any one else and how they got around it. Look forward to replys, thanks
internal connectors: usb2 connectors, games/midi, 2 ide, 20pin atx power, 2 sata, 2 1394, 5 pci, 1 asus propriety wi-fi slot and a couple others.
Hard drive is a Western Digital WD2000jb ide caviar 200GB
optical drive: asus drw-1604p (jumper cap is on cable select at the moment. However there are five rows of pins, three are cable select, master and secondary, no idea what the other two are)
Graphics card is an asus A9600 series AGP ati
From what I remember seeing fly by on the screen last night the majority of the motherboard parts were detected including the rear panel connectors which I did not list (if you want me to list those, let me know).
Hi Tom You may have a bad disk. Try downloading a clean copy from one of the mirrors.
I recently downloaded the recent FreeBSD 7.1 and burned it to a DVD+RW. I am very impressed so far with the install and the desktop. It seems faster than my Debian Lenny system.
Took several install attempts to get the hang of the installer but the effort is worth it. good luck dennis
My war is with actually getting X to run. The command line, as ive posted on another topic is pretty easy. But i wish there was a command line copy and paste so i could post my output here as im on an xp machine currently.
diceflamez: You can copy and paste with your mouse. Depending how your mouse is configured in the terminal, you would use the third mouse button (scroll wheel pushed down sometimes). If it’s a two button mouse, you can setup third button emulation which means you press both buttons down at the same time to paste. The third button emulation is setup with moused in /etc/rc.conf
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