From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 15:38:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05DD37B503 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:38:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8187E18BC; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:02:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF8B18BB; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:02:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:02:11 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Elouise Connell Cc: freeBSD-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: install problem In-Reply-To: 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 Please wrap your characters in your email client to 72 columns. > I have been trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 and I can bootup but when I > get to the screen that lets me choose were I want to install it from, > and I say CD-ROM, it tells me it cant find the CD-ROM and I looked > threw the book and it says that if I have a ATAPI CD-ROM that dosn't > work I should E-mail you. I am not sure what kind of CD-ROM I have, > but my computer is a "Packard Bell Legend 204cd". Please help. You can > E-Mail me at this adress or at jjcon1@hotmail.com. Thanks. You're not going to be able to install it off the CD-Rom in that computer. It's a propietary drive that works off the sound card's IDE controller. You need to get another CD-Rom and slave it off of the hard drive. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message