Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:43:14 -0700 From: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> To: <revnell@ieee.org> Cc: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: installation problems Message-ID: <05b201bef10f$d7287970$e7dd0518@mwakers.net> References: <37C7548C.4A23CCE@sdc.org>
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Mike, Until someone with FreeBSD3.2-STABLE on Aptiva weighs in, you might be running into a hardware incompatibility problem. Go to www.freebsd.org and find the hardware section. look up all of the major building blocks used to build the computer. i.e. Manufacturer of the HD, CD-ROM, I/O cards ... etc. The reason I point this out is that IBM for some reason is following the herd when it comes to manufacturing non-standard hardware in order to keep customers coming back for upgrades. I find that if you go out of your way to make sure that your computer is 100% PC CLONE then just about ANY os will install/load properly. Also the Aptiva is just about one of the most unreliable computers in the market today. Of 100 Aptiva's that I have personally interacted with 100% of them have died or had major hardware failures within 3 months of purchase, 100% of them had repeats of same hardware problems within 3-6 months after repair. I may get flamed for this but I have already had my fingers burned by IBM, HP, DELL, and Gateway over the hardware incompatibility issues. If the mother board is not 100% Intel compatible, you are asking for problems. I wish you luck! Mike Akers M. Akers Enterprises To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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