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I believe your CD-ROM must be hocked up directly to your mother board. 
FreeBSD cannont CD-ROMs that are hooked up via sound cards.  I am unsure
of this since all my installs have been from ppp conections via ISPs.

Hope this helps you out,
Stephane Raimbault

Paul Michaloski wrote:
> 
>   I just receive a Walnut Creek Book and Release of FreeBSD.
>   When trying to install from the CD-ROM in DOS, I can only complete part of
> the installation and the CD-ROm cannot be found.
> 
>    Does it support CD-Rom (SONY)that are attached to soundcards ?
>   (this is a spectrum.)
> 
>    When creating a boot floppy the boot reports "Can't find /kernel."
> 
>   The documentation couldn't help