From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 10:14:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA01060 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA01053 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id KAA21272; Mon, 20 May 1996 10:25:01 +0100 (BST) To: Kazem Akbari cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Is there anybody out there to help (3rd attempt) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 May 1996 23:10:54 EDT." <199605190310.XAA00322@fox.CES.CWRU.Edu> Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 10:25:01 +0100 Message-ID: <21270.832584301@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kazem Akbari wrote in message ID <199605190310.XAA00322@fox.CES.CWRU.Edu>: > |==> My guess at this point would be that you built a symlink tree from > |==> /usr/ports to the tree on the CDROM (as instructed in the manual, if I > |==> remember), but you (at the current moment) don't have the CDROM > |==> mounted, and hence the data is unavailable. If this is the case, just > |==> type (as root) `mount /cdrom' and then try again. It should fix (I > |==> think) your problem... (all the symlink tree does is create a set of > |==> pointers back onto the CDROM, it don't actually copy or contain any > |==> data from the CDROM. When the data is needed, the symlink refers the > |==> program needing the data to the CDROM to find it). > I tried "mount /cdrom" several times and the system returned: > "cd9660: /dev/wdc0c: Device not configured" Ah. ATAPI CDROM. You'll need to compile a custom kernel for ATAPI support, as I believe the kernel which is installed (even if you use the ATAPI boot floppy to install) is the plain GENERIC kernel which doesn't have ATAPI support. See the documentation for instructions on compiling kernels. You will need to have installed at least the ``ssys'' kernel source code distribution to be able to do this. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info