Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 16:32:29 -0500 From: "Hebel, Mike" <MikeHebel@duo-fast.com> To: "'Steve Friedrich'" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FW: Panasonic CD-ROM installation and no response from your t ech support... Message-ID: <D9D5890778CAD111BE5000805FAD2C8808A799@duofast8.duo-fast.com>
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Ok, let's start fresh. The situation is this: I'm installing FreeBSD on a 386DX-33, with co-processor, 10Meg RAM, 1.08gig hard drive, Panasonic CR-562-B 2X CD-ROM on a proprietary Panasonic interface - (tried both an old Packard Bell [crystal] sound card and an actual Panasonic 8bit interface card), an Oak 512K VGA card, a Western Digital WD8003 SMC Ethernet card. Here's the sequence of steps I follow: 1) Boot from the FreeBSD install disk made off of the installation CD. 2) Choose -c at the boot prompt to start up with a custom configuration. 3) Use the visual configuration program to set the I/O and IRQ settings: a) matcd - 300H (Panasonic card), or 340H (Crystal) b) ed0 - WD8003 (300H, I5) c) sio0, sio1 - Std 3f8,2f8 - 4,3 d) all other non-installed devices disabled. 4) Make sure there are no CONF's listed in Visual before starting probe. 5) Allow probe to start and begin installation program. 6) Choose Options menu from installation program and set extra debugging to YES. 7) Also set media to CD-ROM at that point. (Error occurs regardless of where in the installation I set this.) 8) Start Novice installation. 9) Partition the drive into a 75Meg root and the rest for swap(50M), var(150M), usr(the rest). 10) Choose All for the distribution selection including DES. 11) Do not link to the ports collection. 12) Start installation. During the installation, after the install program does newfs and then copies the dev files, the program will try to copy BIN and the rest of the distribution. When this event occurs it tells me that it is having trouble mounting the selected media. On the debug screen, you'll please pardon me for being inexact as I don't have the screen in front of me, it has an error similar to "Improper/invalid mode for track x - error (5)!". If I cancel at this point the installation program thinks it's installed properly and will attempt to go through all the final installation steps but obviously gets no-where. Incidentally this same exact error occurs when I try and install a CD of 2.2.7 that I FTP'd and burnt. I thought that it was because I had burnt it in something that was not ISO format, however on re-burning it in such I found that was not the case either. That's the long and short of it. Anything anyone might be able to tell me to help me with this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Mike Hebel -----Original Message----- From: Steve Friedrich [mailto:SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 5:01 PM To: Hebel, Mike Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: FW: Panasonic CD-ROM installation and no response from your t ech support... On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:43:03 -0500, Hebel, Mike wrote: >Walnut Creek is not a free organization >and should support at least technical installations issues properly. They really aren't qualified to support it beyond replacing defective media, etc. I don't see any technical info in these threads regarding the actual problem. I understand that it's a Panasonic with an AT interface. Actually, most people are vague on these things. Is it connected to a Soundblaster or to a real IDE interface. The reason I ask, is because in the early days on adding CD-ROM support, most companies used proprietary interfaces that somewhat resemble ATA. Try posting your questions here, and we'll take a shot... Keep in mind that some old hardware may not be supported and you probably won't find anyone interested in spending their free time adding support for an old, quirky, proprietary device. They'd rather spend their free time adding support for new, standard, way cool stuff. Regardless of what operating system you run, you have to live within the bounds of supported hardware. I have been using Winblows, OS/Blue and Linux, and FreeBSD for quite some time. It's frustrating to find hardware that will work under each and every one of them. So let's begin anew... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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