Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:11:16 -0800 From: randyk <randyk@ccsales.com> To: Eric Von Dollen <evondollen@earthlink.net>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <19981127111116.38804@ccsales.com> In-Reply-To: <01BE19EA.0FB4C760@1Cust214.tnt22.sfo3.da.uu.net>; from Eric Von Dollen on Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 09:40:31AM -0800 References: <01BE19EA.0FB4C760@1Cust214.tnt22.sfo3.da.uu.net>
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If you're out of answers and have a local network (LAN) to one of those other FreeBSD machines you installed (or any other Unix for that matter) you could export on the other machine's CD ROM and mount it from the install machine and do a remote install that way...or ftp install... On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 09:40:31AM -0800, Eric Von Dollen wrote: > Over the past three years I've attempted to install FreeBSD on three machines. > The first two installed relatively painlessly and served me faithfully and well. > I'm having a much harder time with the latest install and am hoping you can > give me some suggestions. > > I am trying to install the latest 3.0 release to a 450 Mhz Pentium II Micron Millenia > with a 10 Gb disk on the primary master IDE and a Sony CDROM drive on the primary > slave IDE, I believe. Windows98 and Windows NT install from CD and operate without > problem. > > I have tried most permutations and combinations of installation and have run through > the installation prodedures more than ten times. Invariably, whether I boot from > floppy or boot from CD (both get me started) installation fails at the Choose Installation > Media screen when I select CDROM as the media. The failure message is the > "Message: No CDROM devices found ... ". > > I have tried minimal and maximal device configurations for both scenarios with the same result. > The only thing that appears fishy is a long pause (~20 seconds) at: > > wd0 probed - 9671 Mb > > and a longer pause (>1 minute) immediately following at: > > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > > The probe dialog panel displays for about five seconds as the disk rumbles immediately following this. > > I have twiddled an awful lot with usrconfig to no avail. > > Can you give me some hints? Am I out of luck with the Millenia (specs at www.micronpc.com). > It seems weird that I can boot off the CD but not read it later. I read through the FAQS at > freebsd.org with no luck on this problem. Am I missing something? > > Thank you for your help, > Eric Von Dollen > evondollen@earthlink.net > (925)947-6618 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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