From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 15 08:44:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24588 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 08:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from battra.telebase.com (mail@battra.telebase.com [192.132.57.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24583 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 08:44:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by battra.telebase.com (8.8.3/8.8.1) id LAA18077 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:44:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(172.16.2.129) by battra.telebase.com via smap/n2k (V1.3) id sma018047; Thu May 15 11:43:33 1997 Received: from maxwell.telebase.com (maxwell.telebase.com [172.16.5.208]) by wormhole.telebase.com (8.8.5/8.8.1) with SMTP id LAA29601 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:43:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <337B3D57.C9@n2k.com> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:44:07 -0500 From: D Ruiz X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please, help me! [installing 2.1.6 from CDROM on Compaq 5000] References: <337A5DD9.5ACF@netreach.net> <337B38FC.140D@n2k.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Jacques Ehrlich 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