From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 6 13:52:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cannet.com (cannet.com [206.156.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC464155D3 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from BenG%thekeyboard.com@all-ts1-dyn16.cannet.com) Received: from all-ts1-dyn16.cannet.com by mail.cannet.com id aa07125; 6 Apr 1999 16:51 EDT Message-ID: <370A7379.FDCDDC1@thekeyboard.com> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:50:01 -0400 From: Benjamin George X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD hardware Users Subject: old cd-rom won't work Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i bought an old 486dx2 to setup for a low traffic server... when i got it (from a friend), it had dos and win 3.1 installed, and the cd-rom drive worked fine. i installed freebsd 2.2.7-Release from a cd-rom, and everything went just fine. after the installation (since dos and win is gone), i can't get the cd-rom drive to work. it's an old 2x drive. the only thin i can think of that would make a difference is that dos was there the first time, but i don't know why that would make any difference because i booted from a floppy. any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. -- My Waterskiing Pages (Barefoot & Wakeboarding): http://waterski.pharamond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message