Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:41:36 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Andreassen?= <oystein.andreassen@systec.no> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "'sbailey@speakeasy.net'" <sbailey@speakeasy.net> Subject: RE: Problems with CD-Rom install Message-ID: <E0B92A48AF8CD31185EA0008C778E0914D4743@SKYWALKER>
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Hi! (First: you should really drop the HTML mails to this list before = someone who uses a text-only mail reader gets to you :) I would have tried with an IDE CD-ROM. I have seen some CD-ROMs that = won't boot from (home)burned CD's. It could also be something wrong with the CD or your SCSI/BIOS boot settings. BIOS must have SCSI as primary boot device and the SCSI controller must have CD-BOOT enabled. I don't think this problem has anything to do with FreeBSD itself. The state of the disk has nothing to do with it. So, NO you don't need to prepear the disk. Hope this helps! :) =D8ystein -----Original Message----- From: Sam Bailey [mailto:sbailey@speakeasy.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 18:24 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems with CD-Rom install I am a new user to FreeBSD as well as Unix. I used Unix back in = college to compile FORTRAN programs, but unfortunately that was many moons ago. I = am building a web server at home, as I have a 1500/384 DSL connection. = The website will be basically for informational purposes, no database = services, i.e. low volume. I have an old ASUS P6NP5 Pentium Pro system with 128 MB RAM and a 20 GB = IDE HDD. The CD-ROM is a SCSI Plextor 12/20, controlled by an Adaptec = 2940UW controller. I downloaded 4.6.2-Stable ISOs, and burned them with Nero in Windows = 2000. I boot to the SCSI controller, the Adaptec controller sees that there = is a bootable CD in the CD-Rom, there is a message that states that the = CD-Rom will be switched to Drive A and Drive A will become Drive B. But then = the system just halts with a blinking cursor. The HDD currently has old = data on it formated NTFS, but I plan on overwriting the whole drive. Do I need = to prepare the HDD somehow? Any help would be appreciated, and if this is the wrong group for this question, please point me in the right direction and I'll post there. Thanks, Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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