From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 19:55: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678D937B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:55:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1F343F3F for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 5DA844FC96; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:34:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585A34A0E; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:34:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:34:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Mike Loiterman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-ROM installtion problems. In-Reply-To: <002001c2c0ff$1fa8b9e0$0302a8c0@mike> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:42:23 -0600 > From: Mike Loiterman > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: CD-ROM installtion problems. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just downloaded 5.0 and successfully burnt the discs. > > Unfortunately I have been unable to get my system to boot with the discs. Disc 1 works fine with others systems, however. > > I can boot the system with a windows disk without problems, so the CD-ROM drive appears to work. > > I can boot the system with the floppies, but when I try to install from the CD-ROM drive it says it there was an error mount /dev/adc0. > > I'm using a promise Ultar133TX2 ata adapter which is supported by FreeBSD according to the documentation. The card sees both the HD and the CD-ROM. > > I used Nero Burning ROM to burn the disc. I created an Image from the ISO. Did I burn the disc incorrectly? The ISO already *is* an image. If you get a directory listing of the CD in e.g. win32 do you see 1 enormous file or the BSD CD structure? If the disk was burned improperly, you'll see just 1 large file on the CD and not the correct file structure. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message