Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop

[Manolis Kiagias]

Joseph Eaton wrote:
> More precisely.  I do select the elements I want ("All" and then "Exit" and then "Install from CD-ROM" and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: "User Confirmation Requested" and below that "Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0" and on the next line "Do you want to try to retrieve it again?" and then at the bottom "Yes" or "No" and I can never retrieve it successfully or exit successfully.  Thanks again for your help.
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> From: Joseph Eaton <mendobosco at yahoo.com>
> To: questions at freebsd.org
> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:56:49 PM
> Subject: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above.  I welcome any help.  Thanks.
>   
Please have a look at the handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html

esp. section 2.13.1

The ISO you downloaded cannot be used for offline (CD-ROM based) 
installation. It is intended to pull install files from the Internet.
Download at least the first full cd. Download all the CDs if you plan to 
install packages from the disks. Bear in mind 6.2-RELEASE is now a years 
old, and the packages in the CD are quite aged. There are other methods 
of getting updated programs once the base system is installed. However 
as a newbie getting a first feel of the system this is not terribly 
important. Please make sure you read the excellent handbook.