From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 11:54:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27158 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 11:54:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lachman.com (genesis.lachman.com [192.35.52.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26967 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 11:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from satwant@lachman.com) Received: from ra.lachman.com (ra.lachman.com [192.35.52.29]) by lachman.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id NAA21995; Tue, 26 May 1998 13:53:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from satwant.i88 (satwant.lachman.com) by ra.lachman.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15465; Tue, 26 May 98 13:53:06 CDT Received: from localhost by satwant.i88 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA04219; Tue, 26 May 1998 13:49:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:49:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Satwant To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEBSD installation. (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199805261818.LAA00507@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the response. I have a boot floppy made, which was easy to make using config.exe from cdrom in w95 mode. The problem is booting in dos mode, or booting thru walnut cdrom, or thru bootable floppy is the foll: although, the installation menu comes up, and i can do disk partitioning, and set up diff filesystems /, /usr,/var, BUT WHEN it tries to load the bin, man directories etc., it wants to know where should it load from.. and i say .. cdrom. It comes back saying "cdrom not found". This happens even when the install program is itself running from cdrom. Also, when I boot in dos mode, I can't see h: as my cdrom any more, although I can see it in dos shell. So I think my OS cant see my cdrom, although w95 can. Also, my cdrom is Goldstar, which is not in the list of supported controllers/ cdrom drives. Now I am trying the following: copying all of cdrom contents onto D: drive, so that I may ( I hope I can) later choose to load through DOS partition and be able to specify that drive. ( I have C+D drive on my HD1 and E on HD2- I plan to use E as my bsd disk) I dont know if it will work. Do you have any clue, how I can make the installation program look at the bin etc. dirs. ? Please let me know, Thanks, -Satwant. P.S. Pl also cc: me at lakewood12@aol.com On Tue, 26 May 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > I think you'll need to re-post your query to the list, supplying specific > information about your configuration (such as how much memory you have). > > Please do not respond only to me, as there are others on the list who > will undountedly be able to help you better than I, once you supply > the needed information. > > david > -- > David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message