From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 18:41:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lvdi.net (Mta.lvdi.net [216.24.138.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CE9C14C94 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:41:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: from lvdi.net ([216.24.141.103]) by lvdi.net ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:38:49 2000 PDT Message-ID: <379E61D4.7D9EA982@lvdi.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:50:12 -0700 From: notme Organization: me++ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Nobles Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM not found References: <379DF189.776D8CB1@wcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I don't think you should boot in DOS to install FreeBSD, rather use a FBSD bootdisk (a file from FreeBSD.org or ftp.cdrom.com, there is a directory call floppy with detail instruction). The directory should be at ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/3.2-RELEASE/floppies once you boot into the visual console, you should be able to select an IDE device call Creative CD-ROM. (if I am not wrong :) I hope I helped :) Frankie David Nobles wrote: > Sorry for the repetition. I realize this is a common problem from > looking through the questions and hacker archives. I read several > questions but didn't find any solutions. > > I'm trying to install freeBSD 3.0 onto my Win98 machine an old Dell LE > 486 66 MHz machine with 16 MB and two hard drives. > > The first is a 325 MB drive with Windows installed. > The second is a Quantum 2.1G drive and that is where I'd like to put > freeBSD. > > Problem right now is that when I boot to the MS-DOS prompt to do the > install the system doesn't recognize the CD-ROM. I've tried modifying > the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat several ways but can't get it to work. > > The CD-ROM is from Creative Labs. Just to let everyone know my > knowledge of any flavor of Unix is small so please keep that in mind > when replying. Windows is a only a little better since my background is > mostly mainframe. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > David Nobles > DNobles@dnobles.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message