Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:59:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: electmus@nb.sympatico.ca (Doug Richardson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: re: FreeBSD installation problems.... Message-ID: <200001091959.OAA01065@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000001bf5a2d$e4af8700$30c7a4c6@comp1> from Doug Richardson at "Jan 8, 2000 07:12:54 pm"
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Doug Richardson wrote, > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Richardson [mailto:electmus@nb.sympatico.ca] > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 7:10 PM > To: support@cdrom.com > Subject: re: FreeBSD installation problems.... > > > I'm having a problem getting the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 3.3 to recognize my > ATAPI (Ide) 50X cdrom. I can start the install by directly booting the cdrom > but during the installation just after package selection and partitioning it > asks where you want to start the install from,??? I select the cdrom, then > I'm told that one has not been detected?????? Kinda weird considering that > very cdrom drive is where it started intallation from. Any ideas on this one > would be appreciated, I have tried the hardware faqs and the newsgroups but > no luck as yet. I have used various Linux distributions for two years but > have not seen this problem before. Have registered product............ > doug - alexr@linux.ca This is usually due to a misconfiguration of the devices on the secondary IDE controller. Make sure that if the CDROM is alone on the second controller that it is configured to be the master. Some other OSes will let you get away with not having the devices configured properly, but it does violate the standard and FreeBSD will not put up with it. There have also been problems with IDE CDROMs still not working correctly when they apparently are properly confiured. This problem is specific to a few models. If your CDROM appears to be configured properly, search the FreeBSD-questions mail archive at, http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html If you can't find the answers you need, write back to freebsd-questions with more detailed information about your setup (CDROM manufacturer and model being the most important for you). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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