Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:15:40 +0100 From: Mohamed Shahil Mooradun <mshahil@mshahil.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: installation panic Message-ID: <8FE2A938-EFB6-11D7-91E2-000393DB7518@mshahil.demon.co.uk>
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Hi, Thank you for reading this email. I have been trying to install FBSD on my advent laptop 7018 (see=20 specification below) It came package with XP home. Well I used Partition Magic 8 to create a partition before C drive.=20 Well I created it as primary unformatted. So FBSD boot can use the space before the 1,024 cylinder. When I set=20 the unformatted partition active ready for install then I boot from my=20= FBSD CD well there seem to be a kernel panic. It keeps on going in=20 circle rebooting several times. Please tell em if there is a possibility of installing FBSD on this=20 hardware or I am trying to do the impossible. Maybe I need to install=20 FBSD clean on the whole drive. Then create the slice an reinstall XP.=20 But I'd rather not do that ,too many data to back up. try with moving=20 and creating the partition first with PM8. FIPS won't work on XP anyway=20= so i'm stuck @ the moment. This section read only if you want to : Now I am keeping the microsuck OS because I need it for my course work=20= and also until i get all the hardware to function under FBSD example=20 WI-FI Lan. I like challenge and experimental learning and I think FBSD OS has a=20 lot to go for. I like to get down to technical. Maybe in the future I=20 will have to do some system administration in my line of duty I was=20 going for Linux [RedHat 9.0]. However FBSD can emulate linux and run=20 ported applications. I'm a newbie to Unix and I hate microsuck. But have a long time=20 macintosh experience user. Well the latest OS X Darwin has its origin=20 from FBSD. OS X is unix based. Well when I start looking under the hood=20= of OSX well my unix interest has grown a lot. I decided that I should=20 run FBSD on my wintel machine because I was getting tired of microsuck. CPU Intel=AE=20 Pentium=AE 4-M 2.00 GHz Memory 512 MB DDR=20 SODIMM Hard Drive 60 GB Fujitsu=20= MHS2060AT CD / DVD Drive 8x 8x 8x 24x=20 Matshita CW-8121 DVD ROM/CDRW combination drive Floppy Drive Floppy disk=20 drive Monitor 15 widescreen TFT (native resolution 1280x854) Video / Graphics Card nVidia=AE GeForce 4=99=20= 440 GO (64 MB) Sound Card Realtek AC97=20 audio Network Card Realtek 8139 /=20 180X (Onboard) Network Card Intersil=AE = Prism=AE=20 wireless LAN PCI card PC Card 1 x Type I /=20= Type II PC Card Ports Advent 7018 ports Case Advent 70xx series case information Battery Lithium-ion battery
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