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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:41:36 -0700
From:      "Sam Bailey" <sbailey@speakeasy.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Problems installing from CD-Rom
Message-ID:  <002001c24de8$9d1f70b0$6d02380a@sambailey>

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This is a re-send as my last message had HTML formatting...sorry.

I am a new user to FreeBSD as well as Unix.  I used Unix back in college to
compile FORTRAN programs, but unfortunately that was many moons ago.  I am
building a web server at home, as I have a 1500/384 DSL connection.  The
website will be basically for informational purposes, no database services,
i.e. low volume.

I have an old ASUS P6NP5 Pentium Pro system with 128 MB RAM and a 20 GB IDE
HDD.  The CD-ROM is a SCSI Plextor 12/20, controlled by an Adaptec 2940UW
controller.

I downloaded 4.6.2-Stable ISOs, and burned them with Nero in Windows 2000.
I boot to the SCSI controller, the Adaptec controller sees that there is a
bootable CD in the CD-Rom, there is a message that states that the CD-Rom
will be switched to Drive A and Drive A will become Drive B. But then the
system just halts with a blinking cursor.  The HDD currently has old data on
it formated NTFS, but I plan on overwriting the whole drive.  Do I need to
prepare the HDD somehow?

Any help would be appreciated, and if this is the wrong group for this
question, please point me in the right direction and I'll post there.

Thanks,

Sam




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