From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 6 12:35:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646BE37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from hestia.email.starband.net (smtp3.starband.net [148.78.247.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546D443FBF for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:35:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottmcclellan@starband.net) Received: from mooeymachine (vsat-148-64-148-75.c005.g4.mrt.starband.net [148.64.148.75]) by hestia.email.starband.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h26KYs1q012545 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:35:05 -0500 From: "scott mcclellan" To: Subject: need help installing freebsd Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:34:57 -0600 Message-ID: <000401c2e41f$dd423ce0$4b944094@mooeymachine> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've got an old 386, 16meg RAM, 1Gig HD, Creative Infra 1800 CD-ROM, with floppy capability. About 2 years ago I formatted the hard drive (got sick of Windows locking up on me), no longer have the boot disks, and am looking to use the computer to learn how to program on outside of Windows (looking at starting with Python). Was steered toward FreeBSD, and I noticed that it would install on the RAM I had available. Fortunately, I've noticed a number of other things along my surfing for information. I wasn't able to get the computer to recognize the CD-ROM. Found out through your site that a great number of units get installed as the slave of the Secondary IDE (mine was, much to my dismay). I've since corrected that problem, I think. I've downloaded the 4.7 ISO image disk 1, and saw through the letters here that I only needed that one to boot from. Thinking I had solved my CD-ROM recognition problem, I want to boot from a CD rather than load 40 floppies into my machine. The following is what I encounter on the screen: "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : FAILURE NO /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel Boot: No /kernel >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel Boot:" Any suggestions - other than throw out the "old" machine. And yes, I'm sending this message via a working Window XP machine. Thanks Scott McClellan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message