From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 09:07:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A071065672 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:07:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from margelatto@yahoo.com) Received: from n54.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (n54.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [98.136.44.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 494C68FC21 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:07:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from margelatto@yahoo.com) Received: from [216.252.122.216] by n54.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Jun 2008 08:55:38 -0000 Received: from [69.147.65.155] by t1.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Jun 2008 08:55:38 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp403.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Jun 2008 08:55:38 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 63422.14677.bm@omp403.mail.sp1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 62260 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Jun 2008 08:55:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=xbSMKCunsryPy+uNIYLo7TR1nJ3ywTDSHI8pEDFmW8bspi2TYQ9Bra+FyjnvH0v52uet3P2KoTJ15PVyTE7zZkgZVOhbvuzthIr5x6vu8l0EdFfrdxnLRBm7AAGZTKHICu7nokQ/L5s3RK+tPdQySeKvsCWjbBCmuLPVZoEMigU=; Received: from [92.114.221.191] by web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:55:37 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/975.45 YahooMailWebService/0.7.199 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:55:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Telpiz Sorin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <948245.61083.qm@web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:25:39 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: margelatto@yahoo.com Subject: Installing FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:07:59 -0000 =A0tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on=A0my friend's=A0ma= chine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by Samsung. The hard dr= ive (master) appears to have SATA interface, nonetheless SYSINSTALL regogni= zes it as ad04!=0ABesides, SYSINSTALL complains about the disk's geometry= =A0. The text console works very slowly, though the machine=A0(ASUS motherb= oard) has 2 Gigs of RAM and=A0a=A0good GeForce video board. For comparison,= my old IBM machine ( PentiumII , 128Mb RAM , 16Mb video memory ) runs Free= BSD much more faster. Could you help us fix the=A0trouble?=0ABest regards = and much thanks.=0Asorin at margelatto@yahoo.com=A0=A0=A0=A0=0A=0A=0A