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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:32:01 +0000
From:      Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>
To:        David Armstrong <david.armstrong@tiscali.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CD Not Recognized after initial screen at install
Message-ID:  <200401152032.01744.dgw@liwest.at>
In-Reply-To: <4006B0EE.5040205@tiscali.de>
References:  <4006B0EE.5040205@tiscali.de>

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On Thursday 15 January 2004 15:25, David Armstrong wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD Folks,
>
> I'm installing FreeBSD and, although the installation can boot from the
> CD, when I select a CD/DVD as the installation source, it says it can't
> find the CD. Obviously, the BIOS can read the CD because it booted from
> it, but apparently FreeBSD seems to be unable to see it.

I had this too. In my case there were 2 drives and they were swapped, i.e. the 
first one was acd1, and the second one acd0.
I tried for several hours with both drives and had already started to pull my 
hair out when I found the solution.

Daniela




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