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#! rnews 1603 bsd 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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.250.118.17!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: "Ming Chu" <mingchu@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM Installation Probs. Date: 20 Apr 1997 04:45:54 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 35 Message-ID: <01bc4d46$27d94090$3dc42299@beta> References: <5jbmfa$50r$1@news.inc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cust61.max29.san-francisco2.ca.ms.uu.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39383 Adam L. Simpson <adam@netsonic.com> wrote in article <5jbmfa$50r$1@news.inc.net>... > Hi: > > I am pretty new to the FBSD OS and and trying to install it on a machine with > nothing else on it but dos. > > I cannot get the cdrom to work at all for the install after all of the novice > setup procedures have been completed. I can however access it from any dos > prompts etc. > > I have also tried to install from a dos partition and that has failed. It has > either locked up or it has failed to install files and when it did install, it > would not allow me to login as anyone nor as root. > > Any help, suggestions or guidance would be appreciated. > > Adam L. Simpson > > > You are installing FreeBSD using an IDE CDROM, right? I'm not sure you can install from an IDE CDROM, but SCSI's should work if you have the right adapter. -Ming