Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 17:40:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Marty Landman <marty@face2interface.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question on FreeBsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104141733370.13239-100000@istar.ca> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010414093316.00a00bb0@pop.ulster.net>
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Hi Marty, Sounds like you may have a hardware problem. Do you get anything back from this command: dmesg | grep CDROM If not, your Cdrom is not being found at boot-up. Is it cabled as slave on the primary or secondary channel, or is it master on the secondary? As for the floppy, you may find this helpful: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/07/05/FreeBSD_Basics.html There's an article in there as well if you need help setting up PPP. Also, you'll find installing the ports collection a heck of a lot easier than playing sneaker-net :) HTH, Dru On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Marty Landman wrote: > At Saturday 4/14/01 09:32 AM, Dru wrote: > > >If you do a > > > >more /etc/fstab > > > >you'll see that FreeBSD comes with a line that will allow you to mount > >your cdrom with the following command: > > > >mount /cdrom > > Hi, > > I'm a newbie so please be gentle :) > > Got FreeBSD 4.2 installed on an old Packard Bell 486/16M/600M hd and when I > type > > more /etc/fstab > > I see devices /dev/ad0s1b,a,f,e and proc. (Let me know if you want me to > transcribe the whole output in detail.) When I try to do a > > mount /cdrom > > the response is > > mount: /cdrom: unknown special file or file system > > I installed from the two floppies and then ftp.freebsd.org with no apparent > problems. That box had W95 on it before and I confirmed that the cdrom > could be used, although on booting windows it complained about a hardware > problem in either the cdrom or motherboard, and device mgr was saying that > a possible virus was in the system. > > I assumed that the old OS had probably gotten hosed up before I ever got > the machine, but didn't bother reinstalling windows to verify this as I > wanted to go right to a FreeBSD install. > > Also, and this must be a \really/ dumb question... how do I access my > floppy drive? I've d/l'd the port for Apache from the freebsd site and > assume if I copy that from a windows created floppy to a ports directory > and run, once I make a PPP connection install will handle the rest? > > Again, sorry but learning something this new to me really is stupefying. > > Marty > > > Face 2 Interface Web Solutions > Content Management Made SIMPL(tm) > http://face2interface.com/Home/SIMPL.shtml > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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