I tried an install of netbsd 5.0 on an acer veriton m261,intel celeron 430/1.8ghz,chipset sis672,ddr2 sdram 512Mb. The dmesg text scrolls to the point where it displays the drive types then gets...

made a slipstream kit, then tried the bios change one more time, changed sata option to sata/ata compatibility just incase and it worked. Thanks alot

That is probably it, lack of sata drivers. My next step might be the slipstream idea, or how about using a ghosted image restore from a similar specs system?

I have 4 sata drives; 0-160gb,1-DVD drive,2-160gb, thats what the bios tells me. The same install disk am trying just worked on another PC an hour ago, though the PC has ID E drives only. drive 0-...

got a dell optiplex 330 which had winxp service pack 2, an upgrade to service pack 3 led to a blue screen. A reformat and an attempted clean install of winxp failed with 0x0000007B (0xF7ABE524,...

Got a dial-up connection, unpredictable power blackouts and a need for a private mail service. I have checked rollernet which seems appropriate for my situation, are there any other service providers...