From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 31 4:39:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.onsea.com (p3Bs11a03.client.global.net.uk [195.147.171.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB75A1558A for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 04:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA07210; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:07:43 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:07:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: Soulofwolf899@cs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... In-Reply-To: <0.8cf3908f.259c43d3@cs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have just one question to ask before I decide to purchase 3.4 after I > return 3.3 to the software superstore where I purchased it... have you fixed > the damned installation error which prevents me from installing the software > with an APTAI CD-ROM? Not entirely sure what you mean but... > I am happy to give FreeBSD a chance to prove itself to me but I cannot unless > I can install it! If you have not fixed it in this version then please keep > my e-mail on file so you can notify me when you have. I think people have slightly more important things to do that notify everyone personally when a specific bug/feature is fixed/implemented... > ps - after spending an hour of my time moving the blasted pin on my CD-ROM to > every possible combination, without of course the manual, in order to make a > "slave", I gave up and I have no desire to do it again. Make sure to let me > know when FreeBSD is as easy to install as ANY of my LINUX packages; > including RedHat 6.1 and TurboLinux 4. Basically, what I have found in the past is that there is a general rule of thumb when installing CD-Rom devices / hard drives. It only seems to affect FreeBSD (*shrug*). Depending on how many IDE devices you have, the configuration slightly differs, but here are two configurations that have worked for me. 2 IDE devices - 1 HDD, and 1 CD-Rom IDE0 Master HDD Slave - IDE1 Master CD-Rom Slave - 3 IDE devices - 2 HDD's and 1 CD-Rom IDE0 Master HDD Slave - IDE1 Master HDD Slave CD-Rom and on another machine, this configuration worked: IDE0 Master HDD Slave HDD IDE1 Master CD-Rom Slave - Without knowing more information about your setup, I'm not sure how else I can help (I'm not entirely sure I'm an authoritive source anyway). Please bear in mind that the only symptoms I have suffered previously have been my CD-Rom mysteriously disappearing, which I have cured with one of the above configurations. But, we all know all too well that the same bug can manifest itself in different ways with different effects. Good luck! :) Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message