From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 9:22:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1960D152BC for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:22:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1204.bossig.com [208.26.241.204]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:29:32 -0800 Message-ID: <3868F1BD.AC4E4F4E@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:22:05 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Soulofwolf899@cs.com Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org, soulofwolf@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Problem with installation References: <0.31cfc357.2599ac79@cs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Soulofwolf899@cs.com wrote: > > I am attempting to install the FreeBSD Powerpack (ver 3.3) on a HP Pavilion > 4483 with a 433 mHz Celeron, 96 megs RAM, and a 32x APTAI CD-ROM. Although I > boot from the CD, I cannot finish the installation because I get the error > "No CD-ROM device found" --- exactly as detailed in the book... please help! If you search the archives, you will find a number of people with the same problem. They all got past it and were able to install FreeBSD. I am going on memory but it seems like most of them had a bad hardware configuration. The CDROM was configured as a slave instead of a primary device. That is a jumper setting on the CDROM. Some may have found that they needed the Primary device to be the HD and have the CDROM as the slave on the primary IDE channel. > > This is my first time using FreeBSD, although I own RedHat Linux 5.2 and 6.1 > and TurboLinux 4.0, and I am "upgrading" to stay "current." Your rapid reply > is appreciated and will prevent me from returning the CompUSA for a refund. I was lucky on my first install because I had someone that had been using *BSD since 386BSD. They helped me through the novice install. I did a Linux install first but it didn't come close to the Unix feel that I had gotten used to over the last 10-12 years and then tried FreeBSD 2.2.8. I still have the Linux install on the HD that I removed from my system. Good luck, Kent > > Thanks, > > Charles > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message