From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 16 16:28:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65EAE37B405 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.137.44.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.137.44] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 164tLp-0000CO-00; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:28:54 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAH0SRO55110; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:28:26 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Hexo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem installation FreeBSD 4.2 from CDROM Message-ID: <20011116162826.F50971@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <00ca01c16e82$73483380$0c02a8c0@jupiter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00ca01c16e82$73483380$0c02a8c0@jupiter>; from hexomedine@ifrance.com on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:37:48AM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:37:48AM +0100, Hexo wrote: > Hi, > > I encounter a crucial issue when installing FreeBSD 4.2 from CDROM. The CD boots and launchs setup menu, but upon choosing media installation source, a window pops-up with a message telling me that my CDROM is not detected ! > > I have a IDE Sony 2x (SONY CDU77E according to Bios) and it does work perfectly under Linux (suse 7.2) and win98. CD should be ok since I used it with several computers before. I did not find any information neither in faq nor in manual nor mailing list archive. > Could yo help me ? I haven't heard about people with this problem for years, but is your CDROM set up as a slave on a controller with no master? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message