Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 01:25:18 -0500 (EST) From: "!Armageddon!" <jdell@sun1.iusb.indiana.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.0 installation question Message-ID: <199502280626.WAA07506@freefall.cdrom.com>
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I purchased a CD from Walnut Creek CDROM of FreeBSD 2.0. The CD had utilities
to create a boot disk and a CPIO disk. I was able set up my FreeBSD partition
and got all the way to the sysinstall utility, where I would load the unix
utilities from CD, FTP, dos diskette, etc. When I attempt to load from my CD,
it gives me the choices of SCSI or Mitsimu type CDROM. I have a Wearness IDE
CDROM, and the system doesn't recognize it. I'm really not concerned with the
unix system not recognizing the CDROM, I just want to be able to finish the
installation.
My FreeBSD partition is actually a second 420mb drive (the entire disk is one
partition). I do have 800+mb spare in a DOS partition on my first disk that I
could use tp load the unix utilities from. I just xcopied everything from the
CD to the dos partition and then tried to finish the installation, but the
sysinstall wouldn't recognize if I tried wd(0,a) or wd(1,a) or hd in place of
wd.
The dos partition is the third partition on the first drive (after 1 FAT
primary, and 1 HPFS logical from the extended).
Any help or suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason Dell
jdell@sun1.iusb.indiana.edu
P.S. I know you guys are busy, so whenever you can get to the response is
fine (like I have a choice).
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