From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 04:38:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA21380 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 04:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA21374 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 04:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id NAA01637; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:38:16 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (NAA02921); Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:13:05 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199607291313.NAA02921@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:13:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: oceans@nfld.com In-Reply-To: <31F6DB89.4184@public.compusult.nf.ca> from "OCEANS Ltd." at Jul 24, 96 07:27:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi, > > I am having some trouble installing FreeBSD 2.1. One of two problems > prevents me from completing the installation. .... > The other problem is that the installation procedures cannot find > the CDROM drive. I watch the boot process for BSD and I can see > where the CD is detected but after going through the menu > selections under 'novice' the install process reports that no > cdrom has been installed. I have tried a Hitachi 4X IDE, a Sony > CDU33A on its own proprietary card and the Sony using the CD > interface on a Zoltrix sound card. I have even used the '-c' > boot option to explicitly tell BSD where the CD is located. It > still reports that a CD cannot be found after it reports the > device during boot and selecting the novice installation. I don't know what did you make wrong, but the Sony CD is OK, I've installed from that type of CD. (And use it from that time.) -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky