From owner-freebsd-user-groups@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 22:53:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF5816A420 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CC513C46A for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so2365158nfb for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:53:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=U2yaPiwx9GBnOyFaQCgA6luhD2LJM7szVnI3LO7xNHE=; b=kbpjpe9l5C4vHaYGeQu65/WhgwZ8LY79ZT9CFiA+0D7T+xwgX3/850A8vRRJgRCHAAQwa70adswTm+fNfzTQhWsvyk7tOMfpscLkVa07wu7/Tclxio9ITxIkN5t3uutKZ2+iBceZqov1HYaJ+VMneR2pdC5sZ4qAQABRlwnC4p8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IjFRtXYXh+YfBoiUog3KtR0rFcZukg8VqvSsPeGbbT5pMs/ISJNLTa9FxuIKK+FJxEOK5JMHziO3t/TgEPSImBB49L2lfRree9gD7y1CbJEyn2e6t8UC5nC+ttzAtF+a58xYkvEk5iP6D/XfGKck21SHO6+H40aTAhl0J+XOIsk= Received: by 10.114.152.17 with SMTP id z17mr515455wad.1191020032833; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.27.4 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1bd550a00709281553j3e093f7fs27c70987024beffa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:53:52 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" To: "Josh Paetzel" In-Reply-To: <20070928163956.GF24834@tcbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1bd550a00709280856q42a98284hcf8b5da33098babe@mail.gmail.com> <20070928163956.GF24834@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User Group Coordination List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:53:56 -0000 On 9/28/07, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Fernando Apestegua wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This is my very first post in this list, so I beg for your patience :) > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on an IBM Netfinity 5000. I have the > > two CD's set. > > The machine uses a IDE DVD drive, and 5 SCSI disks. > > > > I boot the machine and the CD starts to boot. I select the FreeBSD > > normal booting. Everything seems to be fine. I can see the messages > > about the detected devices (BIOS CDROM is cd0 and so on...) > > > > I start the installation, The disks are detected, I set up my > > partitions and then I select the CD/DVD media installation... and then > > I get a No CD/DVD drive is present. > > > > The drive is working in terms of hardware (I can run several live CD > > linux distros for example) and then access the CD as usual. How is it > > possible that after booting with FreeBSD the sysinstall (?) program > > doesn't detect the cd? > > > > Thanks in advance > > freebsd-questions@ is a better list for this, but the long and short > of it is the system's BIOS has boot support for the cdrom, but FreeBSD > for whatever reason doesn't have a driver for either the CDROM drive, > or more likely, the IDE controller itself. OK, thanks. I'll post this message there. Cheers > > -- > Thanks, > > Josh Paetzel > >