Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 02:08:29 -0400 From: cliff ainsworth III <cliff@cliffsworld.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: help help I'm being repressed Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970929020829.00734238@mail.internexus.net> In-Reply-To: <199709290340.UAA22137@austin.polstra.com> References: <199709282154.QAA05564@gatekeeper.tseinc.com> <199709282154.QAA05564@gatekeeper.tseinc.com>
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Morning all, enterprise class newbie users here.... We have been trying to install FreeBSD for many weeks now. We know it is a very easy install as we have read it many a time. So we know that it is probably something very simple that we are missing. Machine 1 specs, P-75, eide, 16 megs ram, 365 meg eide hard drive, Creative Labs 32PnP, Creative Labs 8x cd-rom, Ms-dos 6.22 is the only OS and it is not being used accept for this installation. We are installing from a cd-rom. We have made a boot-disc to install of off. We keep getting a message stating "no cd-rom devices found, please check that your systems configuration is correct and that the cd-rom drive is of a supported type. For more info, consult the hardware guide." Do we need to reset any IRQS???. Just not really sure what we are missing here. But we do know this should be the most straight forward of installations. Machine 2 specs, P-200 pro, 32 megs ram, 3 physical eide hard drives, a 2 gig-wd0, 4 gig wd1 and 4 gig wd2., Windows NT 3.51, Windows Nt4.0 spk 3, Windows NT Server 4.0 and Win95 OSes on it., Creative Labs AWE64 Gold card, Teac 6x cd-rom, Number Nine 128 bit series 1 video card. After several attempts to get the Windoze NT loader to recognize the attempted installation we gave up. Eventually went with System Commander 2.x and it recognized it fine. On this machine the cd-rom works fine and installs fine but it doesn't run. We where getting one of the error messages in the book (I cannot remember which one at the moment) We are trying to install FreeBSD on the third physical hard drive "wd2". I am a bit fuzzy on what we did as its been a few weeks at this point. We want to leave the first two (wd0 and wd1) physical hard drives alone and leave all of the microsloth programs there and put all the FreeBSD stuff on the third drive which is completely empty. The Walnut Creek book really doesn't go into multiple hard drive installations with multiple OSes on them. We feel this is a simple problem, but at the moment not obvious. How do we set it, I guess to boot off the c drive/wd0 and run off wd2. I believe I worded that correctly, forgive me if I haven't. We also have a genuine DEC VT100 and Vt220, I am sure can be hooked via LAN with FreeBSD and I also heard they can be run through a PCs serial port. Any ideas. have a great week and thanx in advance -cliff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CLIFFSWORLD homepage------------<http://www.cliffsworld.com>; "Open Throttle" automotive e-zine-<http://www.openthrottle.com>; Quake-Clan "RIP" homepage-------------<http://rip.internexus.net>; p.o. box 1055, Maywood NJ, 07607-7055 fone 201-843-0936 PGP v5.0 public key available "never drive faster than your guardian angels can fly"
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