From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 17 2:54:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heard.com.au (heard.com.au [203.53.37.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90A9037B409 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hmag@ozemail.com.au) Received: from [203.53.37.188] ([203.53.37.188] verified) by heard.com.au (Stalker SMTP Server 1.8b8) with ESMTP id S.0000018093 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 19:54:40 +1000 X-Sender: hmag@pop.ozemail.com.au (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3B2B4B99.88344B91@iowna.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Terry Allen Subject: Re: BSD problem Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 19:54:40 +1000 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 >Terry Allen wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> I bought a copy of the FreeBSD 4.3 installation CD from >> www.everythinglinux.com.au last week & tried to install it this afternoon >> (I'm brand new to the world of installing UNIX, so please bear with me. >> I set the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD (which it did), went >> through the installation up until it asked me to choose a media to install >> from. >> The install from CD ROM option was outlined , so I hit enter, but >> the installer replied that the CD could not be found. I looked through the >> installation CD info files on my Mac, but couldn't find anything to help, >> so I wonder if anyone might be able to help out. >> The PC details are as follows >> >> Motherboard: Slot1 / Socket 370 M741LMRT (includes onboard 10/100 ethernet >> & V90 56K Modem) >> CPU: Intel Celeron 533 >> RAM: 128MB >> Hard drive: Seagate 20GB >> Monitor: LG Studioworks 55V 15" >> SCSI Card: Tekram DC-315/U PCI >> CD ROM: 44X speed > >You don't mention the make/model of mobo. Is the CD-ROM attached to the >SCSI bus or IDE? >The hardware may simply be not compatible with FreeBSD. This can be >confusing until you understand that the BIOS boots the system, but once >it's running it's FreeBSD that needs to access the CD-ROM. Two things >you can do: >1. Get the make/model of the CD-ROM & mobo and compare to the hardware >compat list @ www.freebsd.org >2. Watch the boot messages and see if your CD-ROM is detected. >If it's not detected, you may be out of luck until you replace some >hardware. If you have an IDE CD-ROM now, you may find better luck with a >SCSI CD-ROM. > >Good luck, >Bill > Hi again, Sorry for the confusion in my original post. The Motherboard is a PC100 make & the CD ROM is attached to the IDE bus & the make/model from the top of the drive is - Top-G / BCD E522A I'll pick up an IDE cable tomorrow & make it the master on the secondary bus. Bye for now, Terry Allen ___________________________________________________________________ hEARd Postal Address: hEARd c/o 128 The Entrance Rd The Entrance NSW 2261 Australia Internet - WWW: http://heard.com.au or http://www.ozemail.com.au/~hmag Interactive Message Board - http://heard.com.au/wwwboard/ EMAIL: (checked every Thursday & Sunday, sometimes more often) hmag@ozemail.com.au ---------------------------------- Non profit promotion for new music ---------------------------------- Also, check out the Educate site - http://www.educate.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message