Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:44:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Bill Fumerola <hack@irc.igateway.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation / CD-Rom help Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970219183855.13952H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <330B5316.5844@irc.igateway.net>
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Bill Fumerola wrote: > I'm using the Walnut Creek 2.1.6-RELEASE CD-ROM and am having some > problems with installation. > > 1) It won't reckonize my CD-ROM. I have a Toshiba (ATAPI-IDE) CD-ROM on > my Secondary IDE as master. Try moving this over to the slave position on the primary controller. > The Sony (which I'm told is compatible to Toshiba) won't auto-reckonize > my CD-ROM. The Sony computer? I don't see what you mean here. > When I change it to port 0x170 (the port my driver tells me it's on) it > conflicts with the secondary cd-rom driver. The defaults for wdc1 should be correct for most systems, unless you changed the position of the secondary IDE controller for some reason. > The WCD driver is not present in this installation, even though it's > made reference to in the READMEs, this would be the driver that is > probaly most compatible, yet it's not in the installation options. It's there, it's similar to the wd disk driver. It's folded under the 'wdc' controller. > 2) When I copy the files to C:\freebsd\* it won't reckonize them. I > don't know if the mount isn't working or what but I copied everything in > windows, so I don't know if the win file system is screwing things up. Please elaborate -- what do you mean that it didn't recognize them? Did you select the DOS install option? Are there any errors on the screen or ALT-F2 debug console? Did you download the files in binary mode and arrange them as given in the INSTALL.TXT file? > 3) I can't install by FTP, it won't reckonize my modem. I'm pretty sure > my modem will work outside of the windows enviornment (it's plug and > play, but it's also on com2). Try giving the command 'set device /dev/cuaa1' before doing 'term'. > Any help would be appriciated. If I can't get this working I'm afraid > I'll have to run linux on this machine. We can't have that! :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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