From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 2:32:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A9337BC70 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 02:32:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id NAA17771; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:36:07 +0200 Message-ID: <394DE8D7.B3D59474@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:33:11 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Abel Mayal Cc: questions Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD with CD-Rom References: <001c01bfd9cc$6c3631b0$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don't panic. Create the boot floppies from the CD under DOS/Windows as shown in the view.exe application. Read the fine manual carefully. Examine your CD-ROM drive if it is either ATAPI, or one of those ancient boxes not ATAPI compatible. Check the CD-ROM is jumpered as slave -- AFAIR 3.3. had problems with master CD-Rom drives. HTH -Christoph Sold Abel Mayal wrote: > Good Morning everone, I'm trying to install FreeBSD in an 486 at 33 > MHz computer, with 400 Mb of Hard Disk and 16Mb of RAM. This computer > has a CD-ROM and is connected to its own IDE disk controller. > ...[snip]... it finds the wdc0 that is the main hard drive and wdc1 > that is the disk controller board where de cd-rom is connected. > ...[snip] ... it couldn't find any CD-ROM connected ...[snip] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message