Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:53:33 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de> To: Kevin lu <kevinlui_hk@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't read CD Rom Message-ID: <3A65DC1D.9862DC22@i-clue.de> References: <20010117051412.63314.qmail@web11608.mail.yahoo.com>
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Kevin lu schrieb: > > Hi, > > I am a newbie in FreeBSD and I try to install FreeBSD > 3.4 on my AcerPower 6500 with ATAPi cd-rom, but > failed. > > I managed to boot it from the CD-Rom and the > /stand/sysinstall started correctly but when I reached > the state of choosing installaion medium, it just say > that > > There is no CD-rom found! > > however, I managed to install it from dos slice but I > still can read from the cd-rom, Could anyone tell me > how can i access the cd-rom? For some reason, FreeBSD dislikes CD-ROMs jumpered as slave on a masterless IDE port. Check if your CD-ROM drive shares its cable with another device. If not, it has to be jumpered as master. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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