Installation Hang

[Nick P.]

>Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so they may be easily >read.
Thanks.

>> I think that if it is documented that in order to use 
>>FreeBSD, you must have your CD-ROM on a separate IDE 
>>cable that your hard drive, because of __X___ reason, 
>>then that would be more palatable. I could then 
>>easily decide whether or not I want to move on to the
>>next hurdle in installing the OS.

>That's not necessary in general, unless you have poor quality or
>misconfigured hardware.
I really meant that as hypothetical.  So ... maybe it is my hardware.  But it does work fine in another OS.  Could you elaborate on some ways that FreeBSD might be more sensitive to poor quality hardware than another operating system?

Thanks,
Nick

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