Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:23:55 -0700 From: "Sam Bailey" <sbailey@speakeasy.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Problems with CD-Rom install Message-ID: <000c01c24de6$38f17400$6d02380a@sambailey>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I am a new user to FreeBSD as well as Unix. I used Unix back in college to compile FORTRAN programs, but unfortunately that was many moons ago. I am building a web server at home, as I have a 1500/384 DSL connection. The website will be basically for informational purposes, no database services, i.e. low volume. I have an old ASUS P6NP5 Pentium Pro system with 128 MB RAM and a 20 GB IDE HDD. The CD-ROM is a SCSI Plextor 12/20, controlled by an Adaptec 2940UW controller. I downloaded 4.6.2-Stable ISOs, and burned them with Nero in Windows 2000. I boot to the SCSI controller, the Adaptec controller sees that there is a bootable CD in the CD-Rom, there is a message that states that the CD-Rom will be switched to Drive A and Drive A will become Drive B. But then the system just halts with a blinking cursor. The HDD currently has old data on it formated NTFS, but I plan on overwriting the whole drive. Do I need to prepare the HDD somehow? Any help would be appreciated, and if this is the wrong group for this question, please point me in the right direction and I'll post there. Thanks, Sam [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2719.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#48bd7d> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I am a new user to FreeBSD as well as Unix. I used Unix back in college to<BR>compile FORTRAN programs, but unfortunately that was many moons ago. I am<BR>building a web server at home, as I have a 1500/384 DSL connection. The<BR>website will be basically for informational purposes, no database services,<BR>i.e. low volume.<BR><BR>I have an old ASUS P6NP5 Pentium Pro system with 128 MB RAM and a 20 GB IDE<BR>HDD. The CD-ROM is a SCSI Plextor 12/20, controlled by an Adaptec 2940UW<BR>controller.<BR><BR>I downloaded 4.6.2-Stable ISOs, and burned them with Nero in Windows 2000.<BR>I boot to the SCSI controller, the Adaptec controller sees that there is a<BR>bootable CD in the CD-Rom, there is a message that states that the CD-Rom<BR>will be switched to Drive A and Drive A will become Drive B. But then the<BR>system just halts with a blinking cursor. The HDD currently has old data on<BR>it formated NTFS, but I plan on overwriting the whole drive. Do I need to<BR>prepare the HDD somehow?<BR><BR>Any help would be appreciated, and if this is the wrong group for this<BR>question, please point me in the right direction and I'll post there.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Sam</FONT><BR><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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