Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:57:37 +0100 From: Abel Mayal <am50@ukc.ac.uk> To: questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Installation of FreeBSD with CD-Rom Message-ID: <001c01bfd9cc$6c3631b0$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Good Morning everone, I'm trying to install FreeBSD in an 486 at 33 MHz computer, with 400 Mb of Hard Disk and 16Mb of RAM. This computer has a CD-ROM and is connected to its own IDE disk controller. I have the installation cd-rom of FreeBSD 3.3 and also a Boot Floppy disk to install FreeBSD. I don't want to make any partition at all, I just want to have the hole hard disk dedicated to FreeBSD. I started the instalation inserting the floppy disk and rebooting the computer. It comes up a menu and I choose "Start Kernel configuration in full-screen visual mode". I check the configuration of the computer and there is a few conflicts due to not having any network card. I aso realised that it doesn't find any CD-ROM (sony, mistsubisy, panasonic) BUT it finds the wdc0 that is the main hard drive and wdc1 that is the disk controller board where de cd-rom is connected. I follow the installation and everything is OK until it reaches the menu that ask you where do you want to install freeBSD from. I select CD-Rom but it says that it couldn't find any CD-ROM connected (WHAT!!!!!). I don't know how to tell Free-BSD that my CD-Rom is connected to a disk controller board (IDE/ESDI/MFM disk controller, wdc1). Can anyone help me please? Thank you very much in advance. abel [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good Morning everone,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to install FreeBSD in an 486 at 33 MHz computer, with 400 Mb of Hard Disk and 16Mb of RAM. This computer has a CD-ROM and is connected to its own IDE disk controller.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have the installation cd-rom of FreeBSD 3.3 and also a Boot Floppy disk to install FreeBSD.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't want to make any partition at all, I just want to have the hole hard disk dedicated to FreeBSD.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I started the instalation inserting the floppy disk and rebooting the computer. It comes up a menu and I choose "Start Kernel configuration in full-screen visual mode". I check the configuration of the computer and there is a few conflicts due to not having any network card. I aso realised that it doesn't find any CD-ROM (sony, mistsubisy, panasonic) BUT it finds the wdc0 that is the main hard drive and wdc1 that is the disk controller board where de cd-rom is connected. I follow the installation and everything is OK until it reaches the menu that ask you where do you want to install freeBSD from. I select CD-Rom but it says that it couldn't find any CD-ROM connected (WHAT!!!!!). I don't know how to tell Free-BSD that my CD-Rom is connected to a disk controller board (IDE/ESDI/MFM disk controller, wdc1). Can anyone help me please?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you very much in advance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>abel</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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