Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:05:58 -0500 From: "Samuel f. Stover" <livna@msn.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Installation question. Message-ID: <000701be3b5b$739e27c0$8001010a@pitt>
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I am in the (desirable) position of evaluating FreeBSD 2.2.8 and RedHat 5.2 as potential corporate workstation OSs. Haven't had any problems w/ RedHat, been running it for a couple of months. However I have encountered a bit of a problem when installing FreeBSD. I am installing on a Pentium 166 w/ 64M RAM, 2.5G Seagate Barracuda SCSI HD and Plextor 12-Plex SCSI CD [Adaptec 2940 PCI controller]. I can wade through the Novice installation until I get to where I choose my installation media. When I choose CD-ROM, I am informed that I do not have a supported CD-ROM available. I can start the installation from the bootable CD-ROM so I know the hardware is set-up correctly. I figure I'm doing something wrong, but I can't see what. I talked to a friend of mine who knows Unix and he said to try entering the device manually, so I chose the other File System option and entered /dev/cd0 as the filesystem. It appeared to install (although it did tell me that some of the packages I selected couldn't be found on my install media, so I knew something was up), but when I rebooted it said that it couldn't find a kernel. I created a bootable floppy and ran the install from there with the same results. Whenever I choose my Install Media, I'm told that my CD-ROM isn't supported. My understanding is that any SCSI CD or HD is supported - and RedHat installs w/o a hitch. That tells me that I'm doing something wrong during the install, but other than UserConfig, there isn't much that I do. Can you help? Thanks in advance. Samuel f. Stover To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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