Date: Thu, 2 Mar 95 16:15:14 CST From: Aaron Harcrow <g506181@aurora.lasc.lockheed.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: installation of 2.0 Message-ID: <9503022210.AA28996@eagle.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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Hi. Folks, my name is Aaron and I'm yet another lost soul in search of wisdom, etc., ... I am fairly unix competent, but haven't much experience with starting from scratch. The problem at hand regards installing FreeBSD 2.0 from the Walnut Creek CDROM. I built the boot and cpio floppies no problem from my second hand external Gentech CDROM drive. The initial kernel was installed on the hard disk, but when I boot from it, it cannot find the CDROM drive. I even boot kernel -c and change address, IRQ, DRQ to match the settings on the controller card, i.e., 0x300, 5, 3, but still no luck.So, the questions are : 1. Is this Gentech CDROM incompatible? It is ISO9660 compliant. What am I doing wrong? 2. Where can I get a table that identifies all of the devices probed at bootup? 3. If my Gentech CDROM drive is incompatible, is it possible to copy files from the CDROM to my Colorado 120Mb tabe drive and then install packages from this? What steps explicitly should I take? NFS porting is not available to me. Thanks in advance for your help, Aaron Harcrow
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