Problems With Installation on OmniBook

[Andy Sparrow]

> 	I am trying to get my first FreeBSD install going.  I was given a HP 
> Omnibook 5700CT laptop recently.  I downloaded all the ISOs for 5.2.1, 
> made the boot floppies, and took off.
...

> Does anyone know how to get the installer to move past this point?  
> Thanks for you time and help.

Ty, I never tried 5.x, but my 5700CTX installed 3.x, PAO and 4.x 
flawlessly - and ran them very well.

Might be worth trying to boot-strap from an earlier release - you can 
always upgrade from source in-place.

Probably worth checking that your boot floppy doesn't have any errors - 
QA on floppies went out the window a few years ago, and some literally 
seem to go bad between the initial format and the first use - try 
formatting it again with verification, getting the MD5 of the floppy 
image, using another etc.

Also worth checking that all your memory is good - it's all pretty old 
now...

One tip not related to FreeBSD but still applicable to a lot of HP 
laptops is to use the Product Recovery CD to format the disk from 
scratch - and /then/ delete the resulting 'Doze partition and install 
BSD - this way you create the Suspend-To-Disk partition for the BIOS and 
the Fn-F12 key actually works...

The Suspend-To-Ram key should work fine if you enable APM in 4.x. 

Think I still have some kernel and X configs if you can get it up and 
running.

HTH.

Cheers,

AS 

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