From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 15:26: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D0637B419 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:26:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.244.107.135.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.244.107.135] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16BlQF-0004t2-00; Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:25:55 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fB5NPFq04934; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:25:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:25:15 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Tor Stormwall Cc: Barry Woodcock , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM Message-ID: <20011205152515.I3061@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20011205000118.63062.qmail@web10906.mail.yahoo.com> <20011205133001.C1792-100000@bossen.myhome.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011205133001.C1792-100000@bossen.myhome.my>; from tor@agent.creson.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:33:57PM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:33:57PM +0100, Tor Stormwall wrote: > Hi! > > > I just bought BSD pak4 from Compusa. I would to load > > BSD on an old IBM PS/1 that i have at home. The PC > > has 486DX, 32MB, and 850MB hard drive. I install > > a CD-ROM about 4 years ago ( Sound-Blaster Creative). > > The PC will not boot from the CD-ROM, so I created > > two Bot disks from the first BSD CD. I was able to > > boot from the diskettes and follow the instruction > > for setting disks partitions. When I get to the part > > to load the rest of the system files, it says not > > CD/DVD found. How can I get around this??? > > > > thank you > > > > Barry > > > I also had this problem and it seems that no one have seen > it before. If FreeBSD cant find your cdrom it is probably not > supported. One way to install is to install the base > installation from diskettes or over FTP, if you have a fast > connection. > I installed over FTP from my machines that couldn't find > the cdrom. You may have a CDROM that can be accessed by the matcd(4) or mcd(4) drivers. These have not been included in the GENERIC kernel for some time. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message