Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:59:10 -1000 From: "Art Neilson, KH7PZ" <art@hawaii.rr.com> To: Brian Orbell <bo@min.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problem Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990705105910.00880210@clients1.hawaii.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990705124256.00964d40@mail.min.net>
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Does your BIOS post recognise the CD-ROM drive??? My BIOS
(Award) reports the drive it found TOSHIBA CR-ROM model number etc.
Is your CD-ROM drive slave or master on your secondary IDE channel?
Try make it master.
At 12:50 PM 7/5/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I have a ATAPI CD ROM Drive and am trying to install a new version of
>freeBSD onto my computer. I can not get past the step of installing from
>which source (cd rom being my source) because it does not recognize my cd
>rom drive. In the options menu for model of cdrom there is no option for a
>ATAPI CD ROM drive. I have just purchased this copy of freebsd off your
>web site so it is the latest version. I thank you for any support you can
>offer.
>
>Regards Eileen Orbell
>
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Arthur W. Neilson III, KH7PZ
Bank of Hawaii Tech Support
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