I assume you tried to configure the kernel before running the install program.
Assuming the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html or the hardware notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html Do not cover your hardware, I would ask the hardware question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] There may be a driver that will recognize your CDROM. On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Gunther, Dean (Dean) wrote: > I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to > install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB of RAM and a 2GB > hard drive so it should be doable. I started out to try an load from an > ftp site using the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card but was unable to figure out > how to get FreeBSD to recognize the card. I have a BackPack CD-ROM > drive (parallel port connection) that I use with the laptop, but I was > unable to find any information on whether or not I could get it to work > to install FreeBSD. > > I created the boot floppies and was able to get the install shell going > but without any access to the install files I was at a loss how to > proceed. I guess if I really wanted to I could try a floppy install, > but I was hoping for something a little quicker. At home I have a cable > modem and a linksys NAT box providing internet access so ftp does not > sound like a bad way to go, but I wasn't able to figure out how to get > the system to recognize the PCMCIA card. If there is a way to use the > BP CD-ROM that would be even better, but again I couldn't find any > reference to backpack's or even parallel drives so that has not been a > fruitful avenue to look down. > > I am still kind of new to FreeBSD and UNIX, but I am trying to learn. I > thought that installing FreeBSD on my old laptop would be a way to keep > it somewhat useful if only for web-surfing and/ or playing around with > some scripting work I would like to try to do. > > Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > TIA > > Dean M. Gunther > Q-Agent > Lucent LWS > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
