Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 06:30:55 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Charles F. Dillon" <charlesdillon@yahoo.com>, "Dominic Hillenbrand" <I-C-H@mail.ru> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hi Message-ID: <022301bf8874$0c612460$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> References: <20000307195417.4999.qmail@web2206.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dominic's posting is a bit vague, but it sounds quite similar to the problem I encountered a week ago ..... assuming it is in fact the same thing, the solution is far from obvious, and is something I intend to post to the docs list shortly. I believe the problem is the rather terse description provided in the ReadMe of how to use the ISO image to make a usable CD. If one simply follows instructions to_the_letter the result is a CD containing only the original ISO image, and once the system starts looking for files on the CD it responds with a message to the effect that .... "can't find the CD". The fact is that the ONLY CD copy application with a halfway intelligible explanation of burning the ISO image to CD is Adaptec Easy CD Creator, and its only compatible with Win9x & WinNT4 (not with Win2000 or any *nix). Now before someone starts jumping up & down about CDRWIN / various unix CD copy applications etc ... they may well be capable of doing the job, but without an explicit explanation they are totally useless to the average newbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles F. Dillon" <charlesdillon@yahoo.com> To: "Dominic Hillenbrand" <I-C-H@mail.ru> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 5:54 AM Subject: Re: Hi > The ISO-9660 Image that you downloaded is meant to be "burned" to a > CD with a CD-R(ecordable) Drive. That CD is then used as > Installation media. I did not see a CD-R listed in your hardware > list, and you said "it" would not find your CD-ROM, so I am assuming > you have not done this. Without more information, or a clearer idea > of what your tried, any other advice would be speculative. (i.e. Did > you burn the CD an boot to it and sysinstall did find your CD drive?) > > I have a feeling I may have missed this one entirely. :) > > cfd > > --- Dominic Hillenbrand <I-C-H@mail.ru> wrote: > > Hi > > I downloaded FreeBSD 3.4 iso file > > from > > ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/FreeBSD/CD-ROM-images/ > > but it won't find my cd-rom if i want to install it. > > i've been using linux before so i am not totally new > > with unix like systems. > > > > thank you very much for your help! > > > > cheers > > dominic > > > > System: > > (1995 rather old computer ;-) > > Pentium 100 MHZ > > Asus Board > > 48 MB RAM > > MATROX PCI GRAPHIC CARD 2 MB > > NE 2000 ISA ETHERNET CARD > > ADAPTEC PCI 2940 SCSI CONTROLLER > > SCSI 2 GB IBM HD > > SCSI 699 MB QUANTUM > > ATAPI MITSUMI CD-ROM 32x > > Floppy > > Onboard PCI-IDE CMD 640 Controller > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > ===== > charlesdillon@yahoo.com > Charles F. Dillon > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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