FreeBSD CDROM Installation

[David Nobles]

Sorry if this doesn't have all the info but I'm brand spanking new at this.

My old hard drive with Win98 died and I just got a new 40GB for my laptop so I decided to install FreeBSD instead
.
In trying to install on my Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT I couldn't get it to boot the FreeBSD CDROM.  I did change the option to boot from floppy/hd/cdrom to cdrom/floppy/hd.

 I created the Kernel and MFS floppies per the instructions in my book (FreeBSD 3rd edition) and it sets up my partition, asks what  type of installation I want (selected Novice).  I then tell it the installation media is CDROM but when it boot it appears to scan the CDROM (led flashes) but then boots from the hard drive giving me a message that 0:wd(0,a)/kernel is the default and placing me at the boot: prompts.  If I type ? it lists several items: 
/var 
/usr 
cdrom 
/ 
plus some others.  Anything else I type it just echoes what I type as 0:wd(0,a)xxxx where xxxx is what I typed followed by the message no xxxx.  Any ideas how to get it to recognize the CDROM or barring that creating the floppies to get a basic install so I can perhaps boot that and get the rest from the CDROM

Thanks for any help,

David