Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:11:20 -0700 From: notme <notme@lvdi.net> To: David Nobles <DNobles@dnobles.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM not found Message-ID: <379FB848.2F346EA5@lvdi.net> References: <379DF189.776D8CB1@wcom.com> <379E61D4.7D9EA982@lvdi.net> <05bb01bed965$3cb0da20$4b2d2299@david>
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Well, here is a "trick" that you can try... for some strange reasons, (I have yet to learn) some ATAPI CD-ROM refuse to work when installed to secondary master. (I had the same problem with my old Gateway 166 with a Toshiba ATAPI 8x) Try installing your drive onto primary slave. My works after I did that, and I just let it boot off the CD-ROM. I hope this helps you :) Frankie David Nobles wrote: > I went there and printed off the instructions. I then used > fdimage.exe to create two floppies one for kern.flp and one for > mfsroot.flp. I then booted using those floppies. I've gotten through > all of the menu to the point where I'm at the one titled "Choose > Installation Media". I try selecting option 1 - Install from a > FreeBSD CD-ROM but I get the message: No CD-ROM devices found! This > is a Creative Mat/Panasonic drive and it works fine when I boot the > machine under Win98. I'm using the CDs from Greg Lehey's book "The > Complete FreeBSD" and have all four CDs. If there is any information > I'm not supplying that will help let me know. David > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: notme > To: David Nobles > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 9:50 PM > Subject: Re: CDROM not found > Hi, > I don't think you should boot in DOS to install FreeBSD, > rather > use a FBSD bootdisk (a file from FreeBSD.org or > ftp.cdrom.com, > there is a directory call floppy with detail instruction). > The directory > should be at > ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/3.2-RELEASE/floppies > > once you boot into the visual console, you should be able to > select > an IDE device call Creative CD-ROM. (if I am not wrong :) > > I hope I helped :) > > Frankie > > David Nobles wrote: > > > Sorry for the repetition. I realize this is a common > problem from > > looking through the questions and hacker archives. I read > several > > questions but didn't find any solutions. > > > > I'm trying to install freeBSD 3.0 onto my Win98 machine an > old Dell LE > > 486 66 MHz machine with 16 MB and two hard drives. > > > > The first is a 325 MB drive with Windows installed. > > The second is a Quantum 2.1G drive and that is where I'd > like to put > > freeBSD. > > > > Problem right now is that when I boot to the MS-DOS prompt > to do the > > install the system doesn't recognize the CD-ROM. I've > tried modifying > > the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat several ways but can't get > it to work. > > > > The CD-ROM is from Creative Labs. Just to let everyone > know my > > knowledge of any flavor of Unix is small so please keep > that in mind > > when replying. Windows is a only a little better since my > background is > > mostly mainframe. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > David Nobles > > DNobles@dnobles.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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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