From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 15:29:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06992 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06871 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id PAA19496; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:28:24 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id PAA17994; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:28:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Lucien Bomar cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Question In-Reply-To: <000201bdf3b4$4f1f5c00$0100000a@mntws1.atlanta.com> 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 Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Lucien Bomar wrote: >FreeBSD: > >I'm installing FreeBSD from a CDROM that was part of "UNIX Systems >Administrator's Bible" by IDG Books 1998. The CD has a version of FreeBSD 2.2.5 >reported to be courtesy of Walnut Creek CDROM. > >I have a P166, 64MegRam, Mitsumi CDROM. I used the floppy install. >Installation proceeds well until the actual reading of the CDROM. At that point >I get a message "CD in the drive is not FreeBSD or is an older version (pre >2.1.5). FreeBSD CD does not have a version number on it. Do you want to >continue with it?". If I select no I have to exit and if yes the files never >load even though it says the installation is complete. > >I've been through the set-up 20 times and tried every variation. Is this an >error you are familiar with and could you offer a plausible solution? If this were my problem, I would go to www.freebsd.org and get the 2.2.5 boot floppy image and boot the computer using this floppy. I would hope that using the 2.2.5 boot floppy with the 2.2.5 cdrom would get me started. This is just my best guess. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message