no support!

[Bob Johnson]

On Sunday 21 March 2004 01:37 pm, you wrote:
> I created the:
>
> kern.flp and
> mfsroot.flp
>
> Should I create other once?
>

I believe those two should be sufficient, but it would be best if you 
post to the list (questions at freebsd.org) a description of what you did 
and what errors you encountered.  That way more people will see your 
problem and there is a better chance that someone will be able to help 
you.

Once you have those two floppies, you can do the install even if your CD 
doesn't work.  Boot kern.flp, switch to mfsroot.flp when it tells you 
to, and later when it asks you where to install from, you can tell it 
to use FTP to get the files from a FreeBSD server instead of reading 
them from the CD.

Before CDs became common, that was the common method of installing 
FreeBSD and it worked quite well.

- Bob

> Thanks,
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Johnson [mailto:bob89 at bobj.org]
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 11:18 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: GP
> Subject: Re: no support!
>
>
> On Sunday 21 March 2004 12:00 pm, Chris <Chris
> <racerx at makeworld.com>>
>
> wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:53 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > I'd be curious as to what brands of CDrom/DVDs he's running
> > > myself ... I've never had a problem loading up on any CDRom I've
> > > ever used, and I thought that CDroms were pretty standard, like
> > > floppies, nowadays ..
> > >
> > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Remko Lodder wrote:
> > > > GP wrote:
> > > > > On the box that you sell your FreeBSD software it says: "It's
> > > > > easy to turn any pc into an internet, networking powerhouse!"
> > > > > "... any pc ..." and still I cannot get it going!?  That is
> > > > > because I just found out that the 3 CD-Roms and 2 DVDs I got
> > > > > none is compatible or supported by you.
> >
> > Let's look at his wording - The last line. Compatible or supported
> > by you (meaning FreeBSD I assume).
> >
> > So - where did he buy this box? Did he order it via The "Mall"? Is
> > it some other vender like cheap CD's or what ever it's called.
> >
> > I find this very hard to believe - so with that, Why not look to
> > your PC's bios and ensure that your CD Reader is set as the 1st
> > boot device.
> >
> > Then we'll work from there.
>
> I interpreted it to mean that his CD and DVD drives were not
> compatible with FreeBSD.  I have some old drives that "are not
> compatible".  One is so old it won't read a CD-R, for instance. 
> Another few cannot boot, but I can install FreeBSD with them if I
> create boot floppies, as described in the instructions.
>
> More detail about his specific problems would certainly help.
>
> - Bob