Checking Your Hardware
Before you begin the installation, you should have available some information about your hardware in case the system can’t automatically detect it or configure it without your help. Here is a list of the hardware information you may need during the FreeBSD installation:
The type of video card and the amount of video RAM installed.
The manual for your monitor. You need to know the horizontal and vertical refresh rates for setting up X, the graphical windowing system for FreeBSD.
If you have a modem, the COM port (for example, COM1 or COM2) and IRQ (interrupt request number) it is using.
The type of mouse you have (serial, PS/2, bus, or USB) and what port it uses.
The memory address and IRQ of your Ethernet card, particularly ...
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