From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 17:36:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cerberus.simoco.com (cerberus.simoco.com [193.150.150.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596C914D59 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:36:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abbas.karbassian@cambridge.simoco.com) Received: from serv01.simoco.com ([193.150.134.3]) by cerberus.simoco.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11qnml-0000qa-00; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:33:23 +0000 Received: from ukcamoracle1.simoco.com ([193.150.135.4] helo=ukcamoracle1) by serv01.simoco.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #2) id 11qnml-0001pI-00; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:33:23 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ukcamoracle1) by ukcamoracle1 with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11qnoS-0006YJ-00; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:35:08 +0000 Message-ID: <383C924C.522@cambridge.simoco.com> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:35:08 +0000 From: Abbas Karbassian x5262 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Blazer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CDROM troubble References: <99112418105702.01801@george> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Blazer wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am having a darn hard time with a cdrom and freebsd 3.3. > > I am trying to install 3.3 on a relatively new box that I have made myself. I > boot from the cdrom, remove the conflicts from the kernel, and then begin the > install config process. All goes well untill it is time to begin the actual > install process, I am told that there is no cdrom found! > > After some digging, the only answer I have found is the one in Complete FreeBSD > by Greg Lehey that says because I have an ATAPI cdrom that I need to get > outside help. > > So here I am asking...Please help. > > The cdrom is a Hi-Val. I have never had a proble with it otherwise, and it > does boot from the FreeBSD cdrom. > > Thanks for any and all help, > > Brian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Hello Brian: Make sure you have the right master/slave setting on you IDE device. If your CD-ROM drive is by itself on an IDE controller, it must be the master. Regards Abbas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message