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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installing FreeBSD on old system? Post 45202 by MadProfessor on Tuesday 16th of December 2003 03:36:24 PM
Old 12-16-2003
Installing FreeBSD on old system?

I've never had trouble installing freebsd or any linux/unix system on any computer i've tried to do it on. I just recently aquired a Packard Bell, 75mhz Pentium, 482 i believe. Im having difficulty installing it. I have FreeBSD 5.1 on cd and the computer wont even recognize the cd on boot, so it wont launch the x-install program like it usually does. Is there anyway i can tell this computer to boot from cd?? it is not even an option in the bios settings.

So thinking i could just get a floppy set and install it that way, i made the floppys and succesfully booted in to the x-installer. Well I couldnt get it to even detect the cd in the drive, like my cd-rom wasnt even mounted, and i even tried installing from floppy, and it wouldnt recognize the floppy drive, again like it wasnt mounted. Does anyone have any suggestions?? it would be a great help. Thanks in advance.
 

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NAME
grub-install - install GRUB on your drive SYNOPSIS
grub-install [OPTION] install_device DESCRIPTION
Install GRUB on your drive. -h, --help print this message and exit -v, --version print the version information and exit --root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory --grub-shell=FILE use FILE as the grub shell --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive --force-lba force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS --recheck probe a device map even if it already exists INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename. grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot sector. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. SEE ALSO
grub(8), update-grub(8). The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package. If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub-install should give you access to the complete manual. grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97) January 2013 GRUB-INSTALL(8)
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