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Date:      Thu, 15 May 1997 11:44:07 -0500
From:      D Ruiz <druid@n2k.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Please, help me!   [installing 2.1.6 from CDROM on Compaq 5000]
Message-ID:  <337B3D57.C9@n2k.com>
References:  <337A5DD9.5ACF@netreach.net> <337B38FC.140D@n2k.com>

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> Jacques Ehrlich <ehrlich@lcpc.fr> wrote / a ecrit:
> 
> Does anybody help me to install Freebsd 2.1.6 from a CDROM ?
>
> I am trying to install freebsd on a "Compaq Professional Workstation
> 5000". 
  [clip]
 
> Finally, at the time to install freebsd from CDROM, the following
> message appear :
>
> "No CDROM device found. Please check that your system configuration is
> correct and that the CDROMdrive is of a supported type."

I recently helped a friend who was trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5
from CD on a Compaq Presario 4170.  I have installed 2.1.5 without 
difficulty on two other more 'generic' machines (i.e., not Compaq).  
Searching the newsgroup archive [http://www.freebsd.org/search.html],
we learned that others had had similar difficulties with 'seeing' 
the CDROM device on various Compaq 4xxx when installing with 2.1.[56].
Their advice was to move directly 2.2.1, and it was our solution.
We installed quickly and easily using the 2.2.1.  This may be your
best solution; I don't know for certain.
 
D Ruiz  <druid@n2k.com>



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