RE: FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X installation problem

[<ziggy at one2net.co.ug>]

it is deffinately some hardware issue i just cant point out what
though ,cause i hadnt added anything in this box to make it start rebooting
itself when it started that i decided to try a new OS, which didnt work out
much as i said, right now i am assuming it could either be my mobo or RAM,
i am just hoping it is RAM, that will be much easier to replace .
the 80GB is the same make us some of the disks which where in the box

cheers

zig

> Mmm, sounds like some major hardware problems, or incompatibility.
>
> You will need to check your RAM, motherboard, cards and drives [HDD and
> CD-ROM/DVD-ROM].
>
> For the 80GB, you may need to make sure your motherboard supports it.
> If not, download the latest BIOS for your motherboard chipset and you
> should be rolling.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Tinka - CCNA
> Network Engineer
> Africa Online Uganda
> 5th Floor, Commercial Plaza
> 7 Kampala Rd,
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-afnog at afnog.org [mailto:owner-afnog at afnog.org] On Behalf Of
> ziggy at one2net.co.ug
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 6:53 PM
> To: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X installation problem
>
>
>
> hey guys
>
> i am trying to install Freebsd on a box which had win2k proffesional
> and started acting up i.e rebooting itself , it has been working fine
> for ~1.5years, everything slowly started dying my MUA died, IE died and
> it just continued to reboot itself, i tried to repair the OS with a
> win2k disk but that didnt work much some *.dll's refused to install :(,
> anyway now i have been trying to install Freebsd but i am not having
> much fun doing it, i have tried 5.0 ,everytime i am installing the
> packages some just fail to install and i cant basically do much with
> the system i even tried a "Minimal install" didnt work out :( , tried
> 4.2Fbsd when it is extracting into /usr/src almost everything fails and
> it is asking wether it should retry which also doesnt work much,
> 4.7Fbsd when extracting to /usr/src i get: "Panic: page fault  syncing
> disks" then it reboots, could i have messed RAM?, i also tried SuSE 8.1
> i get segmentation faults :(, and i am not willing to try windows again
> cause i am not looking forward to having anymore problems, anyone know
> what i should look at. Should i maybe switch my RAM if that would help
> anything. Ooh i btw i had 3 40Gig disks in this box they all fine and
> working , i decided to get one 80Gig and start a new install and the
> above is what i got, i have a P4 motherboard with 512MB RAM .
>
> all help is highly appreciated
>
> david
>
>
>
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