On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:44:25 +0100, craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > out of desperation, i'm going to install a linux distro that i happen to > have found laying about (as only linux disks can...) > if it installs fine, then i would assume that the *hardware* is fine and > that the problem must lie with fBSD. > is that a fair assumption? >
Unfortunately it is not, FreeBSD is very very picky about hardware. If the hardware is not working 100% fine, FreeBSD would complain although Windoze and Linux would live happily with it. Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"