From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 00:58:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26522 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:58:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-22.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26517 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:58:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.054 #1) id 0zl873-0000bk-00; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:58:22 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA01960; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:58:15 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02794; Wed, 2 Dec 98 08:58:12 GMT Message-Id: <366500F2.E2D64CB5@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 08:57:22 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ynelson@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Boot from CD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > > Hello, > > There ARE problems with FreeBSD 2.2.6 and IDE CD-Roms. > Ahh, thanks. I never ran 2.2.6, I went from 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7, so I never had that problem. > If you are in this case, you'd better copy the bin and ssys (kernel > sources) distributions from the CD to a FAT16 partition, install from DOS > and then upgrade the atapi.c and atapi.h files in the kernel sources. > Then, you will have access to the CD-Rom from FreeBSD. > Does this mean that you can't install from the CD's with an IDE CD-ROM, even if you boot from DOS or a floppy? > TfH > > > Nelson Yu wrote: > > > > > > I bought the FreeBSD CDs and try to boot it from my CD-Rom directly > > > which my PentiumII system supports. I get a read error message. I > have > > > version 2.2.6. Shouldn't I be able to boot and run from the CD-Rom > > > directly? > > > > > > > Yes, you should. This points to a faulty CD (WC should exchange them > > if this is the case) or drive (can you read other CD's?). Can you view > > the contents of the CD in explorer? (I'm assuming you're running > > Windoze), . If you can read the CD in Windoze you could try doing a > > DOS boot from the CD, instructions are in one of the TXT files (not > > sure which) in the root dir of CD 1. > > > > > > > Nelson > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It > > was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. > > > > Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. > > Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions > > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message