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From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Freebsd 2.2.5 - Refuses to install Goddammit.
To: Darach Ennis <arsenic@iol.ie>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Did you partition your drive?
Are you installing FreeBSD onto a clean, new partition?

Rudy.

---Darach Ennis <arsenic@iol.ie> wrote:
>
> 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.
> 
> 

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