From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 10:47:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493BB37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F91E43E6E for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7RHls2b011063; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:47:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7RHlmCG011062; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:47:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:47:48 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Sam Bailey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with CD-Rom install Message-ID: <20020827174748.GA10747@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <000c01c24de6$38f17400$6d02380a@sambailey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000c01c24de6$38f17400$6d02380a@sambailey> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:23:55AM -0700, Sam Bailey wrote: > I have an old ASUS P6NP5 Pentium Pro system with 128 MB RAM and a 20 GB IDE > HDD. The CD-ROM is a SCSI Plextor 12/20, controlled by an Adaptec 2940UW > controller. Some older systems can have problems booting from CD-Rom. You might want to try creating a boot + root floppy disk set, as in the Handbook, section 2.2.7: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html If you can mount your installation CD on some other machine, the floppy images you need will be in the floppies directory, or else you can ftp them from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.6.2-RELEASE/floppies/ > I downloaded 4.6.2-Stable ISOs, and burned them with Nero in Windows 2000. > I boot to the SCSI controller, the Adaptec controller sees that there is a > bootable CD in the CD-Rom, there is a message that states that the CD-Rom > will be switched to Drive A and Drive A will become Drive B. But then the > system just halts with a blinking cursor. The HDD currently has old data on > it formated NTFS, but I plan on overwriting the whole drive. Do I need to > prepare the HDD somehow? No --- sysinstall will deal with all that for you. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message