help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop

[Joseph Eaton]

Thanks in advance for your help.  I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time.  I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz.  I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck.  I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do.

I downloaded the ISO mage for the "bootonly" disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R.  I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in.  It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit.  I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system.  It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library.  I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series.


Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above.  I welcome any help.  Thanks.




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