From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 8:44:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.globeset.com (earth-dmz.globeset.com [216.141.188.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F3A37B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:44:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from moon.globeset.com (moon.globeset.com [10.1.1.7]) by earth.globeset.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11906 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:44:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from globeset.com (austria.austin.inovant.com [10.40.1.5]) by moon.globeset.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01506 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:35:06 -0600 (CST) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: ThinkPad 560 CDROM install X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:42:59 -0600 Message-ID: <271E32625B29AF458A63FF584471AA34026F17@austria.austin.inovant.com> Thread-Topic: ThinkPad 560 CDROM install Thread-Index: AcCVE8jN5ZJv+f7IEdSq1wBQBAUA6w== From: "Dimitrios Kalakanis" To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! ... and as most messages in this box: Please help!!! I've been trying to install FreeBSD ver 4.2 on an IBM ThinkPad 560 (Pentium 133, 40 MB ram, 1MB video) via a PCMCIA 4x Panasonic CDROM model KXL D740.=20 The unit will not boot from CDROM (any kind), so I did create the 2 floppy disks and proceeded. Early in the process it asked to probe the PC card and it did so successfully (the cdrom responded spinning the disk)! However, later on when I chose my install media to be CDROM, I received the response CDROM not found. =20 I realize my configuration is not one of those best supported, but I wonder if there is any hope for me to do the installation through the cdrom. Also, if I do the installation through ftp, would I be able to use my CDROM drive later on? My experience is with Linux. My drive is identifiable from numerous distributions, though I always have to use a special second boot disk. Is there such a disk for FreeBSD? Could I build a custom boot disk(s) (I could get access to a desktop with freebsd source on it)? Or, are there any configuration options I could provide/set during the installation? Thanks in advance! Dimitri =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message