From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 18 2: 4:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEE337B5A7 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 02:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.6.95.46] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tungsten.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12WG5t-0003DA-00; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:04:29 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA05382; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:04:54 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:04:54 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Nick Kapran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM Not Found Error Message-ID: <20000318100454.B235@parish> References: <000001bf90b8$e2d42780$ee66bcd4@9508> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000001bf90b8$e2d42780$ee66bcd4@9508>; from emailaae@mtu-net.ru on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:01:36PM +0300 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:01:36PM +0300, Nick Kapran wrote: > I try install FreeBSD 2.2.5 2.2.5 is a *very* old version. > but when I select in installation program CD-ROM source there was an > error message: CD-ROM Not Found! Please help. > In 2.2.5 days IDE CD-ROM support was rather hit and miss. Check that your CD-ROM is not jumpered as slave on the second IDE channel when there is no master. If that doesn't work then the best solution would be to get a more recent version of FreeBSD (3.x) but if that's not possible the only other suggestion I have is to install from a DOS partition. HTH > Thanks -- Seminars, n.: From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message