[H-GEN] newbie install woes

[R. Shafran]

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I'm having trouble installing both FreeBSD 5.0 & RedHat 9.0

I'll take up FreeBSD first:

My system guts: Asus A7V133C motherboard; 512mb ram; Athlon 1.0Ghz; 
Sound Blaster audio AC97; Asus nVidia GeForce256 32mb AGP video; Symbios 
875/NCR 53C875/876 PCI UW SCSI xtrlr with sda=9Gb UW SCSI, sdb=4.3Gb 
UltraSCSI, sdc=4.3Gb UltraSCSI, Sony CDRX140E ATAPI CDRW on primary IDE 
connector jumpered Master.

FreeBSD 5.0 tries to boot but hangs at "ata0: resetting devices.."

I couldn't find anything useful on a Google search. No response yet from 
BSDVault forum.

Last year I had an ATAPI CDROM drive as master (& only) device on 
primary IDE & no CDRW and I had installed FreeBSD 4.6 successfully, so 
my guess is it's something to do with the CDRW replacing the CDROM.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ron
Sunshine Coast


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