From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 7 22:36:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2355314EE2 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 22:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA51630; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:35:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:35:58 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Andrew Munkres Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD/Alpha on PC164LX from floppy disks Message-ID: <20000107233558.A51611@panzer.kdm.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from amunkres@nyx.net on Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 10:07:26PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 22:07:26 -0700, Andrew Munkres wrote: > I successfully booted FreeBSD/Alpha on my PC164LX from floppy disks with > the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images on them. I had intended to install > FreeBSD from floppy disks, but when I chose this option on the > installation media screen, it told me that there was no floppy drive > device. Even though I don't have a FreeBSD CD, I chose the CDROM option > out of curiosity, and it said that there was no CDROM drive, even though I > do have a SCSI CDROM drive. It did this on both versions 3.4 and 3.3, on > both Novice and Custom installation modes. The disk partitioning program > recognizes the UWSCSI hard drive correctly. What could be causing the > problem? Thanks in advance. If I had to guess, it probably said you didn't have a CDROM drive because there was no CD in the drive. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message