On 02/03/10 14:22, Paul Shi wrote: > Dear All, > > I have encountered in installing FreeBSD including version 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, > 4.8 and 5.1 on my new Dell laptop. Here is some info about the laptop. These versions of FreeBSD are so old they probably don't support your hardware. Try installing FreeBSD 8.0.