Re: Can't install FreeBSD Current or 7.0 on AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile TL-58 1.9 Ghz in an Acer 5520-5679

Quoting Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer_at_FreeBSD.org>:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:52:21PM -0600, eculp wrote:
>>> On Friday 21 December 2007, eculp wrote:
>>>> We have an almost new Acer 5520-5679 in the office that we
>>>> intended to partition and  install 8.0-CURRENT-200712-amd64
>>>> but much to my surprise accessing the cdrom it went into an
>>>> immediate, unreadable loop of hex numbers that can only be
>>>> stoped by powering down.
>>
>> I'm still in hopes that someone has a trick up their sleeve.
>> There seem to be a lot of laptops that use the Turion 64x2
>> mobile.
>
> Many of us are very happy owners of Turion 64x2 laptops.
>
> It's a long shot, but if you can setup a dhcp/tftp server, I'd
> advise booting over network to see if the cdrom has anything to
> do with it. The setup is very easy and only takes a few minutes.
> There are lots of howtos available.
>

I haven't done that in years.  It is worth trying when I have a little  
bit of extra time.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks,

ed

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