From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 0:28:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B83237BA6E for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12h5wt-0003BE-00; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:27:59 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Dave Strock Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:47:15 EST." Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:27:59 +0200 Message-ID: <12227.955956479@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:47:15 EST, Dave Strock wrote: > I have all the partitioning setup and I'm trying to install from the > CD-ROM. The problem is that I get all the way through the install > process, upto the point where it actually installs. Then it says it > cannot find the CD-ROM device, even if I boot from the CD. The book > said to email you for help. My CD-ROM is an ATAPI Sony CDU701. It is > set as IDE Secondary Master, if that matters at all. It certainly does matter if there is no master on the secondary channel. While other operating systems do support this configuration, it violates the ATAPI specification and is not supported by our driver. You should be okay once you've configured the drive as the master on that channel. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message