From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 19:41:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 881D114F89 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:41:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2253.bossig.com [208.26.242.253]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:48:13 -0800 Message-ID: <387FEC08.25395802@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:39:52 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Callicoat Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD Rom References: <3.0.6.32.20000114205337.00795e70@mail.liquidrain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Callicoat wrote: > > hi i just recently bought the FreeBSD power pack 3.3 > and during install it asks how i want to install it and i choose cd rom and > it says there is no cdrom devices > yet i can use any other distrib fine. > its iam gussing a generic atapi 32x cdrom works great > how can i make it install from cdrom i mean i have 10 cds here i would like > to install anyhelp would be greatly apreaciated What kind of CDROM do you have? Most problems of this sort are caused by the CDROM being on the secondary IDE channel but not as a master device. Some systems will recognize singular secondary slave but FreeBSD will not. Kent > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message