From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 27 21:10:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08466 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA08461 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06152; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:09:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:09:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Matthew J. Gentner" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD ROM installation.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Matthew J. Gentner wrote: > Do you have any troubleshooting tips for getting a CD-ROM install of > freeBSD 2.2.2 (Walnut Creek CD's) to roll?? > > My CD-ROM is a Panasonic IDE/ATAPI jobber, I've tried it on the primary > and secondary IDE controllers, both as master and slave. In the readme > files it was mentioned to try setting it's port to -1.. Apparently, the > probe is supposed to move upward from there. It's impossible to set the > port address to -1 though (I tried '1' anyway). The ATAPI CDs are hard to probe. It may be that your drive isn't very cooperative. Unfortunately there isn't much we can do for that (unless you want to hack on the wcd driver yourself :) ). > How do you PROs do it?? Any clue would be appreciated. The Pros use SCSI :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo