Cannot install 0.78, hangs at splash screen.

[ronrussell]

I read about PC-BSD on OSNews, and downloaded and burned a disc. It starts to install, but hangs up when the image of the flowers appears, with the words "starting system". CD drive spins down, hard drive lights go out, keyboard doesn't work etc. Must reboot to escape. System specs are: Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X with 900 Mhz Celeron and 768 MB of RAM, EGVA NVidia FX5500 with 256 MB of RAM, Vibra16 ISA sound card, Western Digital 30 GB hard drive also second Western Digital 40 GB hard drive.
I also tried installing on an old Pentium 166, and it did NOT hang up, but completed the install, however for probably the last half of the install, as it was trying to copy files, it reported: "failed to create directory such-and-such", and upon completion, would not boot, showing only the letters LI and making a beeping sound.
I have noticed quite a number of other "fails to install" posts, has this ever been resolved?

[ronrussell]

Finally, a successful install! I had purchased a used 5oo Mhz iMac for my wife, and so took over her 1998 300 Mhz AMD K6-2 machine, with a 4 GB hard drive, 288 MB RAM, and a 64 MB nVidia GeForce MX400 graphics card. Whatever prevented installation on my other machine didn't prevent it on this one, and the install went flawlessly (although it took 45 minutes or so). Machine boots up and runs well, although some parts of the control panel don't work, so can't change some items from default configuration (although there is no pressing need to do so, either). Setting up the modem was very easy, and I was online in just a few minutes. Next step is to configure my email client and see how that works. Given that this is just version 0.78, I am greatly encouraged, and look forward to version 1.0.

Previously, I had tried SuSE 7.1, Caldera OpenLinux, Mepis, and BeOS, and still use BeOS as my main OS. However, I do realize that some applications are not very well developed for BeOS, so thought I'd try PC BSD. Now I'm glad I did.