Can't install from CD

[Thanjee Neefam]

> "Mike Knowles" <mike.knowles at britishlibrary.net> wrote:
> 
> >Hi, I am trying to install V5.0 on a Compaq Deskpro 2000. The machine boots
> >O.K off the CD but when I get to the stage during install when I choose CD/DVD
> >installation I get a no device error. The CD drive is a Hitachi CDR-7930.
> >All hardware was working fine running W98 immediatly before. Can You help?
> 
> Technical questions should only be asked on the
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> mailing list.  But I just can't resist saying: load the cd9660.ko driver
> from the drivers disk, when asked "Do you want to load any additional
> drivers".
> 
> <Ducks in case Sue Blake is around :)>
> 
> John.

I thought that installation problems were very valid newbie issues. If
you can't even install FreeBSD, how can you ever get beyond newbie?

I had the same problem a couple of years back with a laptop, but I got
around it in a very long and annoying process which I can't even remember
now (I think I eventually installed from a dos partition). I wish I had
found that simple answer in my earlier newbie days :)

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