On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Jason Usher wrote: > I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's > an i686 CPU. > > By default, GENERIC has "HAMMER" as the cpu, and that isn't working. > So I tried both: That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC