From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 15:18:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04538 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04454 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:18:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA000240896221026; Wed, 27 May 1998 10:17:06 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id KAA15450; Wed, 27 May 1998 10:17:06 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05312; Wed, 27 May 1998 10:00:02 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA02618; Wed, 27 May 1998 10:00:01 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 10:00:01 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Satwant cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEBSD installation. In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 26 May 1998, Satwant wrote: [snipped. please leave Cc: when replying] > although, the installation menu comes up, and i can > do disk partitioning, and set up diff filesystems > /, /usr,/var, BUT WHEN it tries to load the bin, man > directories etc., it wants to know where should it load > from.. and i say .. cdrom. It comes back > saying "cdrom not found". > > This happens even when the install program is itself running > from cdrom. > > Also, when I boot in dos mode, I can't see h: as my cdrom any > more, although I can see it in dos shell. > > So I think my OS cant see my cdrom, although w95 can. Is your CDROM drive an IDE based one? Common suggestions include shifting it on the primary-controller (ie the 1st one) and making sure it's jumpered as a slave. > Now I am trying the following: > > copying all of cdrom contents onto D: drive, so that I may > ( I hope I can) later choose to load through DOS partition and be > able to specify that drive. ( I have C+D drive on my HD1 and E on HD2- > I plan to use E as my bsd disk) > > I dont know if it will work. I've never really tried installing off a DOS partition before, but perhaps others on the list may have and perhaps advise you. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clothes do make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message