From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 24 09:04:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07231 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:04:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA07219 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01387; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:04:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Richie Suarez cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd installation In-Reply-To: <33D6B29F.96@concentric.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Richie Suarez wrote: > Hi, before I install freebsd there is a couple of things that I want > to make sure of. I am going to give freebsd my whole hd, no other > partitions. I have been told by you guys already that it is not > neccessary to format my c: before installing freebsd, that I can do > that during the installation. But the thing that I dont understand is: > 1. I am installing freebsd via cd-rom. OK > 2. i am starting the installation via boot floppy OK > 3. once in the installtion, will freebsd provide cd-rom device drivers? > because I will be deleting my ms-dos drivers. Yes. (we hope -- if it's an IDE interfaced CD, sometimes they don't probe correctly. Hit ALT-F2 when you get to the main install menu and make sure it found a device of type CDROM.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo