Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:14:10 BST From: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie> To: Web Master <penrose@linet.it> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrom ide Message-ID: <ECS9607271110B@NetworX.ie>
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On Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:06:31 +0200 Web Master wrote: > Help me please > > I don't see my cdrom (ide) I have just overcome this problem with the great help of several people on this list. If you have not yet installed the O/S, 'cos it doesn't see your IDE CD-ROM, then: (a) Make sure your disk is in standard CHS addressing (done from your CMOS setup. (b) Boot from DOS, fdisk a C: DOS partition of, say, 60MB. Format it. Config your DOS CD drivers in you config.sys and autoexec.bat. Reboot from this DOS partition. (c) Now, mkdir c:\freebsd mkdir c:\freebsd\dist mkdir c:\freebsd\floppies Copy the directories of these names from the CD onto the hard disk. For example, xcopy d:\dist\*.* c:\freebsd /s /e xcopy d:\floppies\*.* c:\freebsd\floppies (d) Make a boot floppy, using the makeflp.bat file on the CD. (e) Boot from this floppy. (f) You'll get into a menu/forms driven installation program. Follow the defaults from there, except, when it asks where you're installing from, choose "Install from a DOS partition". (g) Answer all the other questions and you're home and dry. Goto (i). (h) If it fails to boot from the floppy, then reset the machine. When you get the "Boot: " prompt, enter "kernel -c". When you get the "config> " prompt, enter "visual" and disable all drivers for hardware you don't have. Save and quit, and the boot should suceed. Goto (f). (i) Reboot from the FreeBSD disk partition and have fun. If you have already installed the O/S, but it doesn't recognise the CD drive when you boot FreeBSD, then: (a) cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (b) cp GENERIC YOURHOST (c) vi YOURHOST In "vi", find the following lines and make them look like what you see below. That is, put hash marks where I've got them and remove them from places I don't have them: #disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 #disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus device wcd0 Save and quit back to the shell. (d) config YOURHOST (e) cd ../../compile/YOURHOST (f) make depend; make (g) mv /kernel /kernel.old (h) mv kernel / (i) reboot Mike <mike@NetworX.ie> ---
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