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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:34:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   cdrom not configured?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980121102429.1726B-100000@federation.addy.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801211517.WAA12282@relay.kuzbass.net>

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I've installed FreeBSD on lots of machines and never had this problem:

  mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom
  mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a: Device not configured

the cdrom has always just *been* there, available for mounting, on other
machines, I've never had to do anything special.  This machine is like all
the others, it's a SCSI cdrom hanging off an Adaptec 2940UW. 

Installation was also weird.  The machine booted off the cdrom and
FreeBSD's installation program ran fine until I selected cdrom as the
installation media.  At this point, it told me it couldn't find the cdrom!
So I just walked over, mounted it on one of the other machines and
installed over NFS.  Could the "lack" of a cdrom at installation make FBSD
think the cdrom is not usable?

This machine is my personal workstation and is currently multi-booting
DOS/Win31, WinNT, OS/2, and now FreeBSD 2.2.5.  Only FBSD can't see the
cdrom, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem.

Help?





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