From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 7 5:58:56 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 F2E4337B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpls-qmqp-02.inet.qwest.net (mpls-qmqp-02.inet.qwest.net [63.231.195.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30C9143FBD for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:58:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wolfryder@qwest.net) Received: (qmail 32022 invoked by uid 0); 7 Mar 2003 13:38:46 -0000 Received: from mpls-pop-14.inet.qwest.net (63.231.195.14) by mpls-qmqp-02.inet.qwest.net with QMQP; 7 Mar 2003 13:38:46 -0000 Received: from adsl189.omah.uswest.net (HELO wolf.qwest.net) (209.180.104.189) by mpls-pop-14.inet.qwest.net with SMTP; 7 Mar 2003 13:58:53 -0000 Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:03:46 -0600 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030307075242.00a9e890@pop.omah.uswest.net> From: "WolfRyder" To: freebsd-newbies@FREEBSD.org X-Sender: wolfryder@pop.omah.uswest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Subject: Re: need help installing freebsd In-Reply-To: <000401c2e41f$dd423ce0$4b944094@mooeymachine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 02:34 PM 3/6/03 -0600, scott mcclellan wrote: -snip- > > 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 had the same problem and thought I'd fixed it in setup. Had to fiddle with it a few times. Then, installing on a Maxtor HD, I tried the install a few times and it screwed up royally. 1st time, it appeared that the CD had been burned too fast for my computer. 2nd time, it appeared trash was left on the HD (was windows installed on it before) and I had to zero it out and 3rd time was the charm with a slower burned CD of the Mini. I then went online to download the rest of what I wanted using ports. (All this was preliminary to the 4 times I had to reinstall cause I screwed something else up.) I'm not sure where I d/loaded the Mini from, but if you want, I can check. btw, I now have 2 machines running smoothly with FreeBSD, thanks to the help from this list and a few other sources :) Thanks ppl! Carol ps. don't throw out your old machine! Just a little (well, a whole _Lot_ of) patience and you'll get it working. > >Any suggestions - other than throw out the "old" machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message