From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 11:20:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24198 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:20:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay3.UU.NET (relay3.UU.NET [192.48.96.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24190 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from orgella!nautilus.eng.orgella.com!tom@uunet.uu.net) Received: from uucp4.UU.NET by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: uucp4.UU.NET [192.48.96.35]) id QQecdx02356; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:20:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from orgella.UUCP by uucp4.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:19:58 -0500 Received: by orgella.com (DECUS UUCP /2.0/2.0/2.0/); Tue, 10 Feb 98 12:49:30 EDT Received: from tlf.eng.orgella.com by RAVEN.ORGELLA.COM (MX V4.1 VAX) with SMTP; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:49:28 EST Received: from localhost (tom@localhost) by tlf.eng.orgella.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA01952 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:44:21 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: tlf.eng.orgella.com: tom owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:44:20 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Field X-Sender: tom@tlf.eng.orgella.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ATAPI IDE CDROM Drives 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 am sure that this question has been asked before, but I am new to this, but my son and I are attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 and we have an ATAPI IDE CDROM drive. Greg Lehey's Running FreeBSD 2.1 says to use /cdrom/floppies/atapi.flp to create the boot disk. Unfortunately, we have been unable to find that file on the cdrom. We used dos fdisk (from a dos 7 boot floppy to create a dos partition on the 2.1G hardrive and then copy files into the dos partition. We then attempted to install from the dos partition. The install program installed ok but during the boot from the hard disk it stopped complaining about not being able to mount root system or something. We are lost at this point, not being unix experts. If the answer to the ATAPI IDE CDROM problem is the atapi.flp file, where do I get it? Can I download it from the internet somewhere? What about the mount problem? Tom Field To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message