Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:11:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 Install trouble -- can't see SCSI CD-ROM Message-ID: <199904072011.WAA08136@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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John Reynolds~ wrote in list.freebsd-scsi:
> [...]
> When I boot from the 3.1 floppies it goes to sysinstall and when I get to
> the "choose media" screen and pick "CD-ROM" it comes back and says that it
> can't detect any CD-ROM devices (paraphrase).
I can confirm that 3.1-RELEASE and 3.1-stable cannot install
from a SCSI CD-ROM drive. This is clearly a sysinstall bug.
The kernel probes and finds the drives fine, but sysinstall
doesn't seem to recognize them. I could reproduce this on
several boxes (with very different hardware, but all of them
had SCSI CD-ROM drives). IDE CD-ROM drives work fine.
There are several workarounds:
- Create a (temporary) DOS partition and copy the CD-ROM
contents to it, then install from there.
- Plug an IDE CD-ROM drive into the box (temporarily) and
use it for installation. Sysinstall finds IDE CD-ROM
drives without problems.
- Put the CD-ROM in another networked PC nearby, and export
it via NFS or FTP and install from there.
- Copy the "bin" distribution set to floppies and install
from them. This will require about 20 floppies, so you
probably want to do this only as a last resort. ;-)
In either case it's sufficient to install the "bin" files only.
Once you can boot the box on its own, you can mount the CD-ROM
and install everything else that you need.
Regards
Oliver
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