Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:34:57 -0600 From: "scott mcclellan" <scottmcclellan@starband.net> To: <freebsd-newbies@FREEBSD.org> Subject: need help installing freebsd Message-ID: <000401c2e41f$dd423ce0$4b944094@mooeymachine>
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I've got an old 386, 16meg RAM, 1Gig HD, Creative Infra 1800 CD-ROM, with floppy capability. About 2 years ago I formatted the hard drive (got sick of Windows locking up on me), no longer have the boot disks, and am looking to use the computer to learn how to program on outside of Windows (looking at starting with Python). Was steered toward FreeBSD, and I noticed that it would install on the RAM I had available. Fortunately, I've noticed a number of other things along my surfing for information. I wasn't able to get the computer to recognize the CD-ROM. Found out through your site that a great number of units get installed as the slave of the Secondary IDE (mine was, much to my dismay). I've since corrected that problem, I think. I've downloaded the 4.7 ISO image disk 1, and saw through the letters here that I only needed that one to boot from. Thinking I had solved my CD-ROM recognition problem, I want to boot from a CD rather than load 40 floppies into my machine. The following is what I encounter on the screen: "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : FAILURE NO /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel Boot: No /kernel >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel Boot:" Any suggestions - other than throw out the "old" machine. And yes, I'm sending this message via a working Window XP machine. Thanks Scott McClellan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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