Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:25:15 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Tor Stormwall <tor@agent.creson.com> Cc: Barry Woodcock <bmw_47@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM Message-ID: <20011205152515.I3061@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011205133001.C1792-100000@bossen.myhome.my>; from tor@agent.creson.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:33:57PM %2B0100 References: <20011205000118.63062.qmail@web10906.mail.yahoo.com> <20011205133001.C1792-100000@bossen.myhome.my>
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:33:57PM +0100, Tor Stormwall wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > 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
>
>
> I also had this problem and it seems that no one have seen
> it before. If FreeBSD cant find your cdrom it is probably not
> supported. One way to install is to install the base
> installation from diskettes or over FTP, if you have a fast
> connection.
> I installed over FTP from my machines that couldn't find
> the cdrom.
You may have a CDROM that can be accessed by the matcd(4) or mcd(4)
drivers. These have not been included in the GENERIC kernel for some
time.
--
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