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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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To: Henrik Johansson <f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se>
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Subject: Re: Problem accessing CD-ROM drive
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Henrik Johansson wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Here´s the situation:
> 
> I have a Sony CDU33A drive which is supported by freebsd.
> When installing from CD-ROM the CD-ROM drive is detected
> automatically, but when installing from a DOS partition
> it is impossible to mount the CD-Rom drive upon completed install.
> I know this because I have version 2.1 on CD-ROM, but when
> installing version 2.1.6 I chose to download the distribution
> at the college I´m going to, because my home PC does not have
> Internet access.
> (I download the system on diskettes at school, and then
> I bring them home and store the files on a DOS partition).

It does not matter what you install from. For 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 (don't
know about 2.1.6) the GENERIC kernel that gets installed once the
installation is complete is not configured to support ATAPI CDs. You
have to rebuild a kernel with ATAPI CD support (that is:
options ATAPI
device wcd0
in it) before you can have your CD recognized.

Nadav