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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!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: Vlad <roubtsov@uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM Installation Probs. Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:10:26 -0500 Organization: Baphomet's Throne Lines: 41 Message-ID: <335A5C12.41C67EA6@uiuc.edu> References: <5jbmfa$50r$1@news.inc.net> <01bc4d46$27d94090$3dc42299@beta> NNTP-Posting-Host: cfc1.mrl.uiuc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39398 Ming Chu wrote: > > 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 The root of the problem is likely to be something else: the original poster couldn't even install from DOS. What is the FreeBSD version that is being installed? From IDE hard drive? The size of the DOS partition and of the entire hard sisk? Is the drive using translation at the moment? Are you installing on a different partition of the same disk or on a different disk?