Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:42:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Satwant <satwant@lachman.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEBSD installation. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980527133555.12452D-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980527095355.2597A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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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
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