From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 20:41:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E0D37B719 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:41:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9 (hutch-678.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.206]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA09900; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:41:27 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <003601c0a2d3$0ba78120$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Doug Young" , , References: <30.111525ad.27cdf978@aol.com> <03d101c0a15c$1b11fa00$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Subject: Re: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me e... Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:40:57 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Young" To: ; ; Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:57 AM Subject: Re: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me e... Whats a "Sony CDROM cdu33a" anyway ?? If its something really weird you may well be out of luck. No point messing with oddball components since there is no shortage of common bits that work properly without the aggro. Another point ... you mention "LINUX floppies / linuxpro5.4 / easylinux2.4". I can't begin to imagine what you are doing with those & you probably won't get much assistance on linux issues in this list ...I certainly won't have anything to do with linux. I can't recall any serious problems with installing FreeBSD from any regular type IDE or SCSI CD drive .. as far as I'm aware there isn't anything weird with normal Sony ones. Well thats assuming its IDE or SCSI & not one of the prehistoric ones that connects to a sound card etc. Just a thought ..... I recall hearing about an issue with IDE CD-ROM drives acting up if they are secondary master (or something like that). My IDE ones have always been primary slaves & that works fine. There is probably a bunch of stuff in the questions archive about this. My suggestions are (a) beg / borrow / steal / hire a "common or garden variety" CD drive (b) install from floppy (plenty of info about that at my Pedantic FreeBSD site) (c) if you have permanent internet access do an FTP install The Sony cdu33a is in fact one of those "oddball" cdroms that you are talking of. It connects via a proprietary interface to a controller that is usually on a sound card. It's a 2x, if that helps you see how old it is. FreeBSD does theoretically support the interface, but the sound cards that the interface is on vary greatly, and many times the driver has trouble initializing them properly. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: AMDMCG@aol.com To: dougy@bryden.apana.org.au ; jpaetzel@hutchtel.net ; AMDMCG@aol.com ; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 4:49 PM Subject: Re: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me e... Doug, I was trying to install FreeBsd4.2 and I am chalking it up to lack of support on the baseline image files that I am putting onto the 2 standard bootable "LINUX floppies" to bootstrap load a linux/unix/freebsd kernel into ram .... that works just fine... but the Sony CDROM cdu33a device ... does not seem to be supported by freebsd or by linuxpro5.4 or by easylinux2.4 ... which begs the question ... did i buy a lemon of a CDROM drive .. Or did Sony stop supporting it or no one has gotten around to writing a driver or a special bootable kernel floppy image yet for nonstandard hardware. Thanks again and whatever else you could add or direct me to ... to solve this little mystery ... would be greatly appreciated by me!! Thanks again! Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message