From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 27 13:29: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE88E37B401 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2001 20:29:04 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:33:53 -0600 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: whitt38@home.com, "" , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re:newbie wannabe asks "Where's my CD drive?" Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06/27/2001 2:20:09 PM, "Rod Whittlesey" is quoted as saying: . . . .|Ok, so, like I get the mfsroot.flp and kern.flp copied onto floppies using a . . . .|utility program. Now when I boot and go thru the probes, and in Userconfig, . . . .|there is no CD recognized. I notice that the BIOS on this machine doesn't . . . .|seem to know about the CD either. If the bios does not know about the CD-ROM, do you have a cd-rom on this computer? If you do, it's probably disconnected on the inside. What I had happen is that the IDE cables to the CD somehow got disconnected. What you should do is go into the bios, and make it scan for all IDE devices, and see if it finds the CD-ROM, if not it's probably disconnected via the IDE cable or the power-cable. . . . .| . . . .|I guess I'm just looking for confirmation that either I need to go the 200+ . . . .|floppies root, yeah right, or need to upgrade or try another machine. You can try an ftp install. www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message