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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!ns2.qnis.net!ns.qnis.net!phil From: Phil Jensen <phil@qnis.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Further initial install problem Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:38:18 +0000 Organization: QuadraNet Internet Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961024103513.4051A-100000-100000@ns.qnis.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.qnis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.92.961024075424.10464A-100000@geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu> I might not completely understand the below second paragraph. Please look closely: On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Joseph Cain wrote: > I am using the Walnut Creek cd rom to install 2.1.0 freeBSD on a > 532 Mb partition on my Pentium. I get as far as it asking for a medium > and cannot get it to recognize the cd at this point. > What I have tried so far is to use the following files to create a > boot disk and boot from it. Neither seem to help; I get to the same > error message as when installing from the cd using its install.exe > from DOS. i.e. when I boot from either it brings up the screen that > allows me to start the "novice" install as one option. You can't use the IDE CD-ROM under DOS, either? Is the CD-ROM set to slave, whereas your IDE drive is set to master? It should be. (There are jumpers located on the drive that should be removed/jumped.) > According to the advice I have recieved so far at least one of these > should allow the media part of the install to find the cd, no? Is > there some other set up I need to carry out? You're using the appropriate disk--it should detect your CD-ROM just fine if in fact it is configured correctly. -p Phil Jensen QuadraNet Internet Services Network Administrator / Manager http://www.qnis.net Sysadmins are the Marine Corps of the Internet: we adapt, we overcome, we kick ass... we break things and we kill people.