From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 11:42:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29403 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 11:42:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29363 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 11:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA23552; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:42:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:42:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Jonathan Chen cc: Satwant , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEBSD installation. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 May 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 1998, Satwant wrote: > > [snipped. please leave Cc: when replying] > [more snipping] > > Is your CDROM drive an IDE based one? Common suggestions include > shifting it on the primary-controller (ie the 1st one) and making sure > it's jumpered as a slave. > > > Now I am trying the following: > > > > copying all of cdrom contents onto D: drive, so that I may > > ( I hope I can) later choose to load through DOS partition and be > > able to specify that drive. ( I have C+D drive on my HD1 and E on HD2- > > I plan to use E as my bsd disk) > > > > I dont know if it will work. > > I've never really tried installing off a DOS partition before, but > perhaps others on the list may have and perhaps advise you. > I have, because I had the same problems. I have the luxury of having lots of space, so I copied the contents of the CD onto a DOS partition (ie: D:\freebsd) D: in your case should be wd0s2 and that's the partition you'd specify. It worked just fine. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message