From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 19:56:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from batch3.csd.uwm.edu (batch3.csd.uwm.edu [129.89.7.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6B037B6A1 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from d1@csd.uwm.edu) Received: from alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (d1@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu [129.89.169.1]) by batch3.csd.uwm.edu (8.8.4/8.6.8) with ESMTP id VAA30913; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:56:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (d1@localhost) by alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (8.8.4/8.6.8) with SMTP id VAA21588; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:56:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:56:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Strock To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Problem In-Reply-To: <12227.955956479@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:47:15 EST, Dave Strock wrote: > > > I have all the partitioning setup and I'm trying to install from the > > CD-ROM. The problem is that I get all the way through the install > > process, upto the point where it actually installs. Then it says it > > cannot find the CD-ROM device, even if I boot from the CD. The book > > said to email you for help. My CD-ROM is an ATAPI Sony CDU701. It is > > set as IDE Secondary Master, if that matters at all. > > It certainly does matter if there is no master on the secondary channel. > While other operating systems do support this configuration, it violates > the ATAPI specification and is not supported by our driver. You should > be okay once you've configured the drive as the master on that channel. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > I just went to Comdex in Chicago and picked up a copy 4.0. It installed perfectly. Everything works great...except my stupid win modem, grrrr. No way to fix that is there? Anyway, nice job. 4.0 is great so far. Thanks, /----------------------------------\ | Dave Strock | | | | Student Technology Services | | Help Desk Consultant/Floater | | University of Wisconsin- | | Milwuakee | | Email: d1@uwm.edu | \----------------------------------/ "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message