From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 7 23:13: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from noc.nyx.net (noc.nyx.net [206.124.29.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B81315887 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:12:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amunkres@nyx.net) Received: from nyx10.nyx.net (amunkres@nyx10.nyx.net [206.124.29.2]) by noc.nyx.net (8.9.1a+3.1W/8.9.1/esr) with ESMTP id AAA19889 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:12:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (amunkres@localhost) by nyx10.nyx.net (8.8.8/8.8.8/esr) with SMTP id AAA14272 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:12:56 -0700 (MST) X-Nyx-Envelope-Data: Date=Sat Jan 8 00:12:56 2000, Sender=amunkres@nyx.net, Recipient=, Valsender=amunkres@localhost Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:12:56 -0700 (MST) From: Andrew Munkres X-Sender: amunkres@nyx10 To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD/Alpha on PC164LX from floppy disks In-Reply-To: <20000107233558.A51611@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > 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. Its exact words are "No CDROM devices found! Please check that your system's is correct and that the CDROM drive is of a supported type. For more information, consult the hardware guide in the Doc menu." However, I don't really care about this since I don't have a FreeBSD CD. Was the kernel in kern.flp compiled with "controller fdc0" so that it can see the floppy drive, or was this left out for some reason? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message