Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-29 Thread Andreas Junius
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM, wrote: > There were more typos and bad grammar than good information in my previous > response. What I ment to say: > > Go into the BIOS and make sure the CD is first in the boot list. Then > make sure another system can read and boot the FreeBSD CD. After tha

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread doug
Top posting is frowned upon On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Andreas Junius wrote: Hi, I've checked the compability list and there is an entry for the Acer notebook. Unfortunately a bit old and not quite informative. My problem isn't dual boot or Windows, my problem is that I can't get the installer start

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread Andreas Junius
Hi, I've checked the compability list and there is an entry for the Acer notebook. Unfortunately a bit old and not quite informative. My problem isn't dual boot or Windows, my problem is that I can't get the installer started - the installer gets trapped in an endless loop. There used to be Win Vi

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:10:10 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com articulated: > I would be very surprised if you can not install FreeBSD 8.2. Xorg is > unfortunately another matter. If you can easily reinstall windows (I > assume you want to dual boot) you can try to install only FreeBSD and > see if t

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread doug
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Seg, 2011-11-28 ?s 18:53 +1030, Andreas Junius escreveu: Hi all, I'm trying to install freebsd on a notebook for quite some time. It is an Acer Aspire 9302AWMSi with a AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU. I tried freebsd 8.2, pcbsd 8.2 and pcbsd 9.

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Seg, 2011-11-28 às 18:53 +1030, Andreas Junius escreveu: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install freebsd on a notebook for quite some time. It is an > Acer Aspire 9302AWMSi with a > AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU. > I tried freebsd 8.2, pcbsd 8.2 and pcbsd 9.0 . > > Unfortunately the installation routi

Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-28 Thread Andreas Junius
Hi all, I'm trying to install freebsd on a notebook for quite some time. It is an Acer Aspire 9302AWMSi with a AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU. I tried freebsd 8.2, pcbsd 8.2 and pcbsd 9.0 . Unfortunately the installation routine gets trapped in some kind of endless loop. Version 8.2 starts up and resta