On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:02:18 +0100, you wrote: >I have an old pc on witch I want to install freebsd, only when the bios >does not see the cdrom drive. But windows does. It is a normal IDE cdrom >and set to slave (hard disk primary). Also when I run the installation >it stops when it has to read the cdrom. Is there a way to manually set >the cdrom in the bios. or to install it on a other way.
Does the system see the CD drive if you boot from the floppy install disks? Some older PCs can't boot from CD but need a driver to be loaded first. Even older CD drives use proprietry interfaces which FreeBSD may not see either, eg the CD is plugged into it's own controller card or a sound card (some work, some don't) Dave -- Any speling misteaks are the reult of a bad insallation of mod_spelink. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
