From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 9:41:45 2002 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 4913737B409 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E629943E65 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbailey@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 3775 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2002 16:41:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sambailey) ([63.162.160.98]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Aug 2002 16:41:39 -0000 Message-ID: <002001c24de8$9d1f70b0$6d02380a@sambailey> From: "Sam Bailey" To: Subject: Problems installing from CD-Rom Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:41:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a re-send as my last message had HTML formatting...sorry. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message