I have a brand new Dell Inspiron 570. When trying to install FreeBSD-8.1beta1 from DVD, the boot sequence starts, but I get spinning "*". (I got the same result from a 7.2-Release DVD). The same machine has similar problems with number of other OS distributions, but installation works from an external DVD so the problem is related to the DVD drive. Windows-7 and Ubuntu 10.4 can install from the drive. Dell lists the Drive as: V2P99 Assembly,Dvd+/-Rw,16X,BARE,Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Windows-7 identifies the DVD drive as: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653G ATA What I see o the screen is: ------ CD Loader 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found /\| ----- Olafur