Installing FreeBSD from CD

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Ed,

> Okay. I booted from the cd and it stopped at the 'mountroot>' prompt. 
> What do I enter here -- it is supposed to take the form of 'cd9660:acd0' 
> but there  isn't any such device. Should this be my Mac partition, my 
> Linux partition (which I'll convert to FreeBSD), or my CDROM? And how 
> (from Mac OS X) do I determine what I need to enter?

  You've got it right; you should be able to enter 'cd9660:acd0' at
the mountroot prompt. Actually, you should be able to hold down the
'c' key at boot time with that CD image.

  The acd0 ATA CDROM should show up in the boot log on your screen
just before the mountroot prompt. This is what it looks like on my
eMac:

  ...
gem0: Ethernet address: 00:03:93:a4:36:fe
gem0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
sc0: <System console> on nexus0
sc0: Unknown <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 39073MB <Maxtor 4D040H2> [79387/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO
ATAPI_RESET time = 580us
acd0: CDRW <SONY CD-RW CRX170E> at ata1-master BIOSPIO

Manual root filesystem specification:
   <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
                       eg. ufs:/dev/da0a
   ?                 List valid disk boot devices
   <empty line>      Abort manual input

mountroot>

  It's shorthand to put 'acd0' instead of '/dev/acd0' as in the
mountroot text, but it'll still work.

  Are you seeing the disks probed correctly ?

later,

Peter.