Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:05:34 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: Darach Ennis <arsenic@iol.ie>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd 2.2.5 - Refuses to install Goddammit. Message-ID: <19971210020534.18721.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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Did you partition your drive? Are you installing FreeBSD onto a clean, new partition? Rudy. ---Darach Ennis <arsenic@iol.ie> wrote: > > Hello. > > I have been trying for the past 3 hours to get freebsd 2.2.5 to install. > I think it won't recognize my cdrom (although the stupid program is begin > run from that cd-rom... im confused). > > Anyway, I dont have a Sony, Panasonic or Matsumi drive, I have a > Toshiba Plug 'n' Play drive. How do i get freebsd to install? > > It gives me a 'No CD-ROM devices found' error when i select cdrom as > media to install from. > > Also when I try to install to a dos partition, it gives me an error > and states x32bin.whatever not found - error hit esc. > > I just want to install it, and get going. I chose FreeBSD because it > was recommended, I am a veteran UNIX user, but a novice freebsd > install utility user (i did read the docs and the hardware docs). > > Everything else is fine. > > If i have IRQ/DMA info for the cd-rom, how do i install it. > (Without reusing matsumis or anothers device name, perhaps the utility > should allow the addition of / search for other cd-rom devices). > > Anyway I would appreciate any help you can help me. Otherwise I have 2 > choices: Use my four freebsd disks as expensive frisbies, or buy a new > cdrom drive. > > I hope im not being too much of a bastard about this, its just it took > 2 weeks to get the cds from the mail, and i was thinking of buying a > second hand computer to run it off (just testing it on my main machine > at the moment). > > All help appreciated with open arms. > > My brain is now sufficently /dev/null'ed that i'll have to give up for the night > and try again tommorrow evening. > > Oagh well. > > Regards, > Darach Ennis. > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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