Install problem with 8.0 Release

[Mike Tancsa]

On 12/21/2010 5:24 AM, Graeme Dargie wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
>  
> 
> I am trying to help a friend who is overseas install FreeBSD 8.0 i386.
> Left to his own devices the install failed, so I ran through it with him
> last night, all is fine till it gets to the root password screen where
> the install just hangs.  He is not very techy, all I could glean was the
> system has an sis chipset and it previously ran windows 7 with no
> problems, I am hoping to get a more detailed spec of the machine, but I
> thought might make an initial enquiry to the list to see if anyone has
> come across this behaviour before, or are there any obvious possible
> causes ?


Hard to say without more details as to why its hanging, but I would not bother with 8.0 as its quite old. Instead, try 

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso

There is wider hardware support and many, many bug fixes.

	---Mike