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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:00:23 +0000
From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To: Barry Woodcock <bmw_47@yahoo.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: CDROM
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:01:18PM -0800, Barry Woodcock wrote:
> I just bought BSD pak4 from Compusa. I would to load 
> BSD on an old IBM PS/1 that i have at home. The PC
> has 486DX, 32MB, and 850MB hard drive. I install
> a CD-ROM about 4 years ago ( Sound-Blaster Creative).
> The PC will not boot from the CD-ROM, so I created
> two Bot disks from the first BSD CD. I was able to
> boot from the diskettes and follow the instruction
> for setting disks partitions. When I get to the part
> to load the rest of the system files, it says not
> CD/DVD found. How can I get around this???
> 
> thank you
> 
> Barry

What model of cdrom is it exactly?  There are some proprietary cdroms 
from ages past that don't have drivers on the boot disks.

Josh


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