From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 04:27:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F408C16A4B3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BAE43FAF for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:27:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnobles@dnobles.com) Received: from sdn-ap-013dcwashp0160.dialsprint.net ([63.188.128.160] helo=davidscpu.dnobles.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19zDzX-0001zy-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:27:33 -0700 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030916070700.00a58910@dnobles.com> X-Sender: dnobles@dnobles.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:29:28 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Nobles 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: FreeBSD CDROM Installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:27:36 -0000 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 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