Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:56:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Strock <d1@csd.uwm.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Problem Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.1000421215417.24116A-100000@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> In-Reply-To: <12227.955956479@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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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
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