FreeBSD 5.0 Installation again

[Lowell Gilbert]

Fawaz Ahmad Talal <fawaz_talal at yahoo.com> writes:

> I thought it is my labtop which causes the problem, so I tried the
> same with my desktop,
> and it causes the very same thing: a hang during the very first boot
> up.

At precisely the same point? 

> I wonder, how could FreeBSD 4.8, and even 3.2, boot up my machine
> with No Error 
> whatsoever, while your fancy new release, freebsd 5.0, the well
> developed and most 
> advanced, aint able to.

Maybe there's a *reason* that 5.x is being recommended for "early
adopters" rather than production use.