From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 17 14:55:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00219 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:55:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scratchy.itsnet.com (scratchy.itsnet.com [192.41.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00208 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tdavies@itsnet.com) Received: from tom (92-156.dialup.itsnet.com [192.41.92.156]) by scratchy.itsnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA29663 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:44:41 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:44:41 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808172244.QAA29663@scratchy.itsnet.com> X-Sender: tdavies@pop.itsnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: tdavies@itsnet.com (Tom Davies) Subject: Installation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In comparing the installation of freeBSD with Linux, either from an installation diskette or from CD-ROM, Linux install recognizes my CD-ROM, either Sony or Mitsumi, but freeBSD does not, regardless of which installation options I choose. As soon as it begins to load the distribution, I get a message to the effect that I do not have a recognized freeBSD CD or it is out of date, and the installation aborts. I do not have enough room to create a DOS partition and install from that. Any suggestions? Tom Davies To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message