From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 21 10:30:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72C01522E for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max8-23.gbis.net [207.228.62.23]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11416; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA04038; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:27:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <04c501beebfa$6e770dc0$0200000a@home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Carlos J Garcia" , References: <002b01beebf5$8ca6a940$1cbde3c7@gate.net> Subject: Re: Install help needed. Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:27:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How old is your computer (and CD-ROM drive)? I recently installed FreeBSD 3.2 on a 4-year old Dell Dimension with a 4x IDE CDROM. FreeBSD did detect it as Secondary Master, but the kernel probe took about five minutes. I replaced the old CDROM with a new el-cheapo (<$50) 24x modern-day ATAPI drive, and it works flawlessly. If you can afford it, you may want to upgrade your CDROM drive... --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! ----- Original Message ----- From: Carlos J Garcia To: Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 9:52 AM Subject: Fw: Install help needed. > I still can't get Free BSD to find my CD-ROM at install. > I took the CD-ROM drive out and changed the cable from master to > slave and changed the jumpers sometimes it would not even > boot from the CD . When it did boot it didnt find the CD drive. > I then tried to boot from floppy with the CD in it still didnt find the > CD drive . > > I then tried something really different. I made a boot floppy for > Open BSD and when it booted it found the CD drive the first time > it probed my computer. > > I guess my computer is set up in a way that FreeBSD can't find > my CD drive. I really want to install Free BSD but it it getting > fustrating . Will some one please help? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message