Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:50:54 +0000 From: Dave <xtalsinger@blueyonder.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cdrom Message-ID: <bvvp2012d0jivndd7t88q6b4t8dqqpd8ns@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <402A985A.7040007@home.nl> References: <402A985A.7040007@home.nl>
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:02:18 +0100, you wrote: >I have an old pc on witch I want to install freebsd, only when the bios >does not see the cdrom drive. But windows does. It is a normal IDE cdrom >and set to slave (hard disk primary). Also when I run the installation >it stops when it has to read the cdrom. Is there a way to manually set >the cdrom in the bios. or to install it on a other way. Does the system see the CD drive if you boot from the floppy install disks? Some older PCs can't boot from CD but need a driver to be loaded first. Even older CD drives use proprietry interfaces which FreeBSD may not see either, eg the CD is plugged into it's own controller card or a sound card (some work, some don't) Dave -- Any speling misteaks are the reult of a bad insallation of mod_spelink.
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