Installing FreeBSD

[Nathan Vidican]

Peo Nilsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 08:56 -0600, Chris wrote:
>   
>> At this point - I feel you have a failed install and or broken FBSD. The
>> WD 80 gig drive should be of zero issue. I use 2 WD SATA 80 gigger w/out
>> issues.
>> If your drive is partitioned correctly - GAG will and does boot it well.
>>     
> I downloaded FreeBSD 6.2 BETA-3 and installed it. It works!!!
> Now I only wonder what was wrong with the 6.1 Release I couldn´t get to
> boot.
> There was nothing wrong with disk/partitioning, GRUB boot loader or
> anything else with my dual boot setup. I already knew that because I´ve
> been dual booting before (last FreeBSD was 5.2).
> Anyway....I´m smiling again...:-)
>
>   
>> As mentioned many times in this list, seek the handbook for dual booting.
>>     
> I did that, but there was nothing I didn´t already know.
>
>
> Next I will download FreeBSD 6.1 Release again, this time from another
> mirror than the first time. This to find out if there´s something wrong
> with
> the one I first downloaded from ftp.sunet,se.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>  
>   
man md5 ....

All mirrors contain the same files. Errors do however occur, and the 
possibility of a bad download does exist (hey - it's not a perfect 
world). That's what MD5 checksums are for; to verify that the file you 
downloaded matches that you were expecting to... all the ISO images 
afaik have MD5 checksums (see: 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/CHECKSUM.MD5 
or mirror). Simply check the file for consistency before you use it - 
really, this is a habit you should get used to.


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Nathan Vidican
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