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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:52:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Heck <jpheck@uncc.edu>
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Subject: 5.4 installation trouble
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I have a toshiba satelite a25 laptop running windows xp right now 
pentium 3 with 512mb ram, with 40 gb unpartitioned space (35 or so has 
been reserved for bsd). I made 3 .iso's from nero, taken from the files 
on www.freebsd.org. None of them allow me to actually load into the 
install portion of the process. 1 or 2 seconds after bsd tries to load, 
and a bunch of text shows up, it comes to this: "ata0: channel #0 on 
atapci0." When this comes up, the cd in the drive stops spinning and 
nothing else happens- i am forced to reboot. 

I have brief experiences with mandrake 10, but im mostly familiar with 
windows. I cant wait to get into bsd so if you guys have any input on 
this issue, please let me know. and thanks alot!

James

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James Heck