cdrom

[HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER]

Save yourself the $50 investment in the old hardware and do a network 
installation.  You'll need a floppy drive and a network card.  Create 
the boot floppies and choose FTP installation.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES

Yank that old CD-ROM out all together...

Christopher Hollow

Charles Swiger wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Wouter Grol wrote:
>
>> I have an old pc on witch I want to install freebsd, only when the 
>> bios does not see the cdrom drive.  But windows does.
>
>
> Hi--
>
> If the BIOS doesn't recognize the CD-ROM drive, that's generally a 
> NO-GO for FreeBSD working with the drive.  You probably have a 
> proprietary driver for the device to make it work under Windows.  
> However, I think FreeBSD had limited support for some of the old 
> pre-ATAPI CD-ROM drives from Mitsumi and Sony (rebranded by 
> Creative)...from LINT see:
>
> #
> # Miscellaneous hardware:
> #
> # mcd: Mitsumi CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI) interface
> # scd: Sony CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI) interface
>
> Is your drive one of these?  Otherwise, it's probably better to spend 
> $50 and get a standard CD-ROM drive...
>

-- 
Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant
Infrastructure & Technology Support
Toronto, ON