Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

Jayesh Jayan jayesh.freebsdlist at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 10:03:25 PDT 2005


Thank you ....

I will try it out and let you know the output :)

But it is not a proper thing to do .....

anyhow will give it a try ....


On 10/25/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Jayesh Jayan wrote:
> > If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have
> already
> > installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine.
> >
> > Will it work ??
>
> Yes, probably, that's definitely a decent idea and worth a try.
>
> > This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine
> >
> > I can go till the step of Choosing distribution
> >
> > After I choose the distribution it starts the installation
> >
> > it shows transffering ...... in a blue screen with a progress bar.
> >
> > it then transfers 32 of 33 chunks
> >
> > and then it comes up with the error mentioned before.
>
> Sometimes this is simply a problem with the CD being dirty or not being
> read
> correctly.
>
> This might also indicate your hardware is a little flaky. The AMD Athlons
> are
> fine processors, but the earlier AMD K6 and Cyrix CPUs are a bit less
> reliable and some contained interesting hardware flaws (like with the L2
> cache).
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
>


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