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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
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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