From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 10: 5: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1737237B52E for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10542; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:05:02 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id KAA08393; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:04:58 -0700 Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:04:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: chesprit@netzero.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Near The Edge In-Reply-To: <39683F0C.89C963B6@netzero.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I cant get any of my computers, IBM NetFinity 3000 or IBM or IBM PC > 300GL or IBM PC 300PL, to recognize FreeBSD installation boot CD disk, > after making each computer CD DRIVE bootable (successfully tested with > Mandrake LINUX), or recognize the INSTALL command under DOS. (There is > no INSTALL.EXE on the CD-ROM). Must be doing something wrong, you say? > I read the book that came with the 10 CD, purchased at CompUSA. > Nothing doing. A terrible book, if you ask me. Long on repetitive prose > rather than itemized howto instruction. Could you please help? Much > obliged. Thank you. We need more information to help you. Are your CDROM Drives set to be master on the secondary IDE chain or slaved off the hard drive? Have you tried creating the boot floppies and doing it that way? Have you read the step-by-step instructions at http://www.freebsd.org under the Handbook link? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message