Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:29:28 -0400 From: David Nobles <dnobles@dnobles.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: FreeBSD CDROM Installation Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030916070700.00a58910@dnobles.com> In-Reply-To: <44n0d5dtnw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030914143323.00a86ec0@dnobles.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030914143323.00a86ec0@dnobles.com>
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I realize 3.2 is old but I had the complete set of CDs for it from Greg Lehey's book (3rd edition).. I have my desktop setup as dual boot with ME and Linux 8, that installed without a problem but it's on a DVD not a CD-ROM. I've tried a 3.4 CD someone burned for me, a Mandrake CD I burned using the iso file I downloaded from the Internet and right now I'm downloading 5.1 to try that. My connection is very slow which is my original reason for using the 3.2 CDs. I tried installing all of these by themselves and later I gave Win ME 5GBs from the drive to try and create a dual boot - still no luck. After I run the Kernel and MFS floppies and go through the menus, one of them selecting the installation media as CD-ROM it gets to the point where it asks me if I really what to do this. Once I select yes it put the following message on my screen: newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rwd0s1f It stays there for a few minutes then reboots at which boot I get the boot: prompt I menioned before. The only difference between the solo install and with windows is for one I get the message F1 - freeBSD Default: F1 for solo F1 - freeBSD F2 - DOS Default: F2 for dual. I'm mainly just trying to get something installed to learn, I figure I can upgrade later. Any help would be appreciated. At 04:28 AM 9/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: >David Nobles <dnobles@dnobles.com> writes: > > > Per David's suggestion, I'm redirecting this question to this list. My > > FreeBSD CDs are for 3.2. Not sure what additional information might > > be helpful. > >FreeBSD 3.2 was outdated four years ago. > > > > > My old hard drive with Win98 died and I just got a new 40GB for my > > > > laptop so I decided to install FreeBSD instead . > > > > > >Woo hoo! > > > > > > > I created the Kernel and MFS floppies per the instructions in my > > > > book (FreeBSD 3rd edition) and it sets up my partition, asks what > > > > type of installation I want (selected Novice). I then tell it the > > > > installation media is CDROM but when it boot it appears to scan the > > > > CDROM (led flashes) but then boots from the hard drive giving me a > > > > message that 0:wd(0,a)/kernel is the default and placing me at the > > > > boot: prompts. > >So you're booting from floppy, but when you try to use the CDROM as >the installation medium, it doesn't recognize it? It's not supposed >to be rebooting in the middle -- is it really doing that, or do you >mean something else? Regards, David Nobles http://www.dnobles.com dnobles@dnobles.com dnobles@hushmail.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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