From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 08:52:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BFD16A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:52:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from dm3cn8.bell.ca (dm3cn8.bell.ca [206.47.0.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBEB43D2F for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christopher.hollow@cgi.com) Received: from 142.122.115.62dm3cn8.bell.ca with ESMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v5.0)); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:51:57 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: D4A4E604-913A-4A1B-8C07-2866D92AD410 Received: from cgi.com ([142.122.30.40]) by bt5c69.on.bell.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 BESI_Messaging_7 Apr 29 2002 13:22:02) with ESMTP id HT186K00.7DU; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:51:56 -0500 Message-ID: <402D00AA.3020002@cgi.com> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:51:54 -0500 From: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Wouter Grol" References: <402A985A.7040007@home.nl> <938E3876-5CD6-11D8-A5C2-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <938E3876-5CD6-11D8-A5C2-003065ABFD92@mac.com> X-WSS-ID: 6C33DF27694860-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:52:05 -0000 Save yourself the $50 investment in the old hardware and do a network installation. You'll need a floppy drive and a network card. Create the boot floppies and choose FTP installation. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES Yank that old CD-ROM out all together... Christopher Hollow Charles Swiger wrote: > On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Wouter Grol 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. > > > Hi-- > > If the BIOS doesn't recognize the CD-ROM drive, that's generally a > NO-GO for FreeBSD working with the drive. You probably have a > proprietary driver for the device to make it work under Windows. > However, I think FreeBSD had limited support for some of the old > pre-ATAPI CD-ROM drives from Mitsumi and Sony (rebranded by > Creative)...from LINT see: > > # > # Miscellaneous hardware: > # > # mcd: Mitsumi CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI) interface > # scd: Sony CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI) interface > > Is your drive one of these? Otherwise, it's probably better to spend > $50 and get a standard CD-ROM drive... > -- Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant Infrastructure & Technology Support Toronto, ON