From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 9 16:35:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA23470 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.iol.ie (mail2.mail.iol.ie [194.125.2.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA23465 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:35:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arsenic@iol.ie) Received: from GPO.iol.ie (root@GPO2.GPO.iol.ie [194.125.2.197]) by mail.iol.ie Sendmail (v8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07376 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:11:16 GMT Received: from truth (dialup-278.dublin.iol.ie [194.125.42.38]) by GPO.iol.ie Sendmail (v8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA03379 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:11:15 GMT Message-Id: <2.2.32.19971210000959.0094f0ac@gpo.iol.ie> X-Sender: arsenic@gpo.iol.ie (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:09:59 +0000 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Darach Ennis Subject: Freebsd 2.2.5 - Refuses to install Goddammit. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello. I have been trying for the past 3 hours to get freebsd 2.2.5 to install. I think it won't recognize my cdrom (although the stupid program is begin run from that cd-rom... im confused). Anyway, I dont have a Sony, Panasonic or Matsumi drive, I have a Toshiba Plug 'n' Play drive. How do i get freebsd to install? It gives me a 'No CD-ROM devices found' error when i select cdrom as media to install from. Also when I try to install to a dos partition, it gives me an error and states x32bin.whatever not found - error hit esc. I just want to install it, and get going. I chose FreeBSD because it was recommended, I am a veteran UNIX user, but a novice freebsd install utility user (i did read the docs and the hardware docs). Everything else is fine. If i have IRQ/DMA info for the cd-rom, how do i install it. (Without reusing matsumis or anothers device name, perhaps the utility should allow the addition of / search for other cd-rom devices). Anyway I would appreciate any help you can help me. Otherwise I have 2 choices: Use my four freebsd disks as expensive frisbies, or buy a new cdrom drive. I hope im not being too much of a bastard about this, its just it took 2 weeks to get the cds from the mail, and i was thinking of buying a second hand computer to run it off (just testing it on my main machine at the moment). All help appreciated with open arms. My brain is now sufficently /dev/null'ed that i'll have to give up for the night and try again tommorrow evening. Oagh well. Regards, Darach Ennis.