Fwd: Re: FreeBSD CDROM Installation
David Nobles
dnobles at dnobles.com
Tue Sep 16 04:27:36 PDT 2003
I realize 3.2 is old but I had the complete set of CDs for it from Greg
Lehey's book (3rd edition).. I have my desktop setup as dual boot
with ME and Linux 8, that installed without a problem but it's on a
DVD not a CD-ROM. I've tried a 3.4 CD someone burned for me, a
Mandrake CD I burned using the iso file I downloaded from the Internet
and right now I'm downloading 5.1 to try that. My connection is very
slow which is my original reason for using the 3.2 CDs.
I tried installing all of these by themselves and later I gave Win ME 5GBs
from the drive to try and create a dual boot - still no luck.
After I run the Kernel and MFS floppies and go through the menus, one of
them selecting the installation media as CD-ROM it gets to the point where
it asks me if I really what to do this. Once I select yes it put the following
message on my screen:
newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rwd0s1f
It stays there for a few minutes then reboots at which boot I get the boot:
prompt I menioned before. The only difference between the solo install
and with windows is for one I get the message
F1 - freeBSD
Default: F1 for solo
F1 - freeBSD
F2 - DOS
Default: F2 for dual.
I'm mainly just trying to get something installed to learn, I figure I can
upgrade
later.
Any help would be appreciated.
At 04:28 AM 9/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>David Nobles <dnobles at dnobles.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
>FreeBSD 3.2 was outdated four years ago.
>
> > > > 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.
>
>So you're booting from floppy, but when you try to use the CDROM as
>the installation medium, it doesn't recognize it? It's not supposed
>to be rebooting in the middle -- is it really doing that, or do you
>mean something else?
Regards,
David Nobles
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