From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 26 07:42:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA08177 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 07:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA08166 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 07:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id QAA09174; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:41:24 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:41:24 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: jaarcher@vt.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from a Creative CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <342ADC02.22D9EC62@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Jimmy wrote: > Hello, > I would like to install FreeBSD from the CD. I have a Creative Labs > CD-ROM connected as the only drive on my secondary IDE port. When I try > to install FreeBSD, it says "no cd devices attached." Can anyone help > me out? Thanks. Make sure that you have a CD in the drive when you boot. You may also have better luck if you have the CD as the slave on the primary controller. Sometimes that's the only way it will work. > > Jimmy Archer > > Nadav