Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:55:21 -0400 From: fadeaway@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: old compaq 4840 problems - freebsd 4.3 Message-ID: <d9d237df7c8199c9881428ceae27612d@gmail.com>
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I have a old compaq presario 4840. I want to install freebsd 5.3 onto it but it just won't install... It boots the installation and process everything accordingly until when it starts to format the disk and starts installing... First off I notice it has problems fsck, it will error with a message like could not fsck something /xxxxx /mnt/xxxxx. Sorry I forgot to write down the exact message. Then it will tell me it is preparing an emergency holo shell? It will then proceed to try and install from (CD/FTP- tried both) and toward the end of the install it will error and tell it is going to reboot or i can enter a command prompt. But! on freebsd 4.11 and previous versions I remember worked fine. Same thing with Openbsd 3.x and netbsd 2.0 installations... Any ideas? I really want to give freebsd 5.3 a go...
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