From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 19:24:39 2000 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 F05B737B43E for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B9C623282; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:48:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB2A3281; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:48:17 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:48:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: SoftGuitar@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not able to boot (was: Re: dos floppies) In-Reply-To: <66.73f267e.26eaecdb@aol.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 Please keep freebsd-questions in the loop... > I have a IDE hard drive and when I sign on it says it can not read my CD > ROM, Floppy or SCSI......I do not even have a SCSI. > Where do I find my disk controller ?? and how would I configure it to be > read. or probed as BSD was telling me Is your IDE controller built onto the motherboard... or is it a card? If it's onboard, barring IRQ conflicts, it should be auto-detected. If you try to install off of the floppy disks (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp,) does it finish all the way? > I know it is hard to answer newbie questions but it is because we do not > even know what to ask...........sorry for my inexperience. I want to be good > but I'm on the first rung of this ladder. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message