Fwd: Re: FreeBSD CDROM Installation

[David Nobles]

Per David's suggestion, I'm redirecting this question to this list.  My
FreeBSD CDs are for 3.2.  Not sure what additional information might
be helpful.


> > My old hard drive with Win98 died and I just got a new 40GB for my
> > laptop so I decided to install FreeBSD instead .
>
>Woo hoo!
>
> >  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.
>
>The sequence of events above doesn't make sense. It sounds as if when
>you set your media type it subsequently reboots. It shouldn't be doing
>that at all.
>
>You should redirect this question to the freebsd-questions list, as the
>charter of this list prohibits the answering of technical questions.
>The only way we can keep FreeBSD's reputation of stability and
>robustness is to direct people with technical questions to those who
>actually know the answers.
>
>David

Regards,

David Nobles
http://www.dnobles.com
dnobles at dnobles.com
dnobles at hushmail.com

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html