Re: Help installing Freebsd( last version ) in a notebook ?

From: Lowell Gilbert (lgusenet_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 03/30/05


Date: 29 Mar 2005 22:06:25 -0500


"Last version": you mean 5.3?

"Escobar" <escobardemian@ig.com.br> writes:

> Hello you all,
>
> I've a Compaq Armada, 7800, Pentium III, 366Mgz, 128 MB Ram, 13 Gb Hard
> Disk, without a floppy.
>
> As you guys know, it's an old model, it has no BIOS, and the installation
> must be thru the cd rom !
> The installation cd is working fine, it boots without problems, but when the
> installation process begins, right in the beggining, it gives an error that
> says: ' ERROR, can't write in AD0 ' !!!
>
> Why is that ? What should I do ?

What happened when you tried disabling DMA, as suggested by an earlier
response?



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