From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 11:55:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA17744 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 11:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from connx.vironix.co.za (connx.vironix.co.za [196.6.101.70]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17728 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 11:54:55 -0700 (PDT) From: eagle@connx.vironix.co.za Message-Id: <199605211854.LAA17728@freefall.freebsd.org> To: QUESTIONS@FREEBSD.ORG Date: 21 May 1996 20:48:44 GMT+0200 Subject: FreeBDS 2.0.5 Sender: owner-questions@FREEBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To whom it may concern About three weeks ago I bought a copy of FreeBSD 2.0.5 (Double CD Pack) from a local software dealer. Since then I have been trying to install the software onto my computer. I have an 80486 DX2-50, 12MB RAM, Western Digital 1.2 GB HDD (IDE), Conner 426 MB HDD (IDE), Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro (8-bit stereo), Creative Labs Quad Speed CD-ROM (IDE), 1.44 & 1.2 floppy drives and VL-BUS controller cards for the screen and multi I/O hard disk controller card. The multi I/O hard disk controller card is an enhanced IDE controller card. In the help documents on installing it says that FreeBSD 2.0.5 does not support IDE CD-ROM drives so I followed the instructions for installing from a DOS partition. I copied the files using the commands given but when it started to install it told me that it could not find root.flp but the file was in the c:\FreeBSD directory. I was installing from the C: drive (1.2 GB HDD) to the D: drive (426 MB HDD). I want the whole D: drive to be dedicated to UNIX. Later on I visited your ftp site at ftp.cdrom.com and downloaded a file called atapi.flp which is the boot disk that supports IDE CD-ROMS. I used RAWRITE to make the disk as instructed in the help files. This did not work either. It found the port address and the IRQ of the CD-ROM and that is all . I think that my CD-ROM is not supported though because the model number is: GCD-R540B. I want to install the XDevelopers version which is about 200 MB and using floppy disks is not a practical method for this installation. Can you please tell me how to make the programme install from the hard drive or if possible from my IDE CD-ROM. Yours Sincerely Sean Preston E-Mail: eagle@connx.vironix.co.za Snail Mail: 13 School Road Amanzimtoti 4126 South Africa Telephone Number: +2731-903-3553 (after 5:30pm South African Time - GMT + 2 hours) ... A feature is a bug with seniority. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12