From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 6 12:45:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6394937B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:45:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from deimos.frii.net (deimos.frii.com [216.17.128.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B4843FB1 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tpconnolly@frii.com) Received: from tconnolly (g8denver.org [207.109.48.8] (may be forged)) by deimos.frii.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h26KjD7s033898; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:45:14 -0700 (MST) From: "Thomas Connolly" To: "'scott mcclellan'" , Subject: RE: need help installing freebsd Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:45:12 -0700 Message-ID: <003d01c2e421$4a528190$5608a8c0@ceesi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <000401c2e41f$dd423ce0$4b944094@mooeymachine> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sounds like you may have a bad ISO Image. Which software did you use to burn the image? This happened to me once (I forget which package I used originally) so I re-burned the image using NERO and it worked fine. Good luck. Thomas P. Connolly Senior Development Engineer Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc. Phone: (970) 897-2711 Fax: (970) 897-2710 Email: tconnolly@ceesi.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of scott mcclellan Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:35 PM To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: need help installing freebsd I've got an old 386, 16meg RAM, 1Gig HD, Creative Infra 1800 CD-ROM, with floppy capability. About 2 years ago I formatted the hard drive (got sick of Windows locking up on me), no longer have the boot disks, and am looking to use the computer to learn how to program on outside of Windows (looking at starting with Python). Was steered toward FreeBSD, and I noticed that it would install on the RAM I had available. Fortunately, I've noticed a number of other things along my surfing for information. I wasn't able to get the computer to recognize the CD-ROM. Found out through your site that a great number of units get installed as the slave of the Secondary IDE (mine was, much to my dismay). I've since corrected that problem, I think. I've downloaded the 4.7 ISO image disk 1, and saw through the letters here that I only needed that one to boot from. Thinking I had solved my CD-ROM recognition problem, I want to boot from a CD rather than load 40 floppies into my machine. The following is what I encounter on the screen: "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : FAILURE NO /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel Boot: No /kernel >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel Boot:" Any suggestions - other than throw out the "old" machine. And yes, I'm sending this message via a working Window XP machine. Thanks Scott McClellan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message