From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 03:19:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9A416A505 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:19:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ptroot@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC33B43CA3 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:18:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so24822pyh for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:19:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=tlMcmOVT8bHJ6OQvI7AuvQ0e9sSQSmPWiy1NnH4kN2c4SHZJ5CiYOrGQVuhO4Wo9NVABB+F7KE/uHb+L4PjVORMQcGw3cT4MTupEzmOVYtEV3ujh7bAImjjaqdL/83OXgRw5z9NGru0fNjTXTcpKuyzqLYujbObvQDRfj+UAYWg= Received: by 10.35.103.12 with SMTP id f12mr662847pym.1165979965806; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [71.220.99.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a79sm202343pye.2006.12.12.19.19.21; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:19:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <805d1def0612121912iedf1a6al11a8a3a99f7eb42e@mail.gmail.com> References: <805d1def0612121912iedf1a6al11a8a3a99f7eb42e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3BDD3EA7-4656-4E8E-AEF5-53E55984B98F@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Root Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:19:59 -0600 To: Josh Abbe X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plextor DVDRW not recognized during install X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:19:27 -0000 Yeah, FreeBSD does not yet recognize a SATA DVD drive. The BIOS handles the original booting of the system. Do you have a regular ATA port on the machine that you could put an old CD or DVD drive on? Why isn't ftp an option? No network? I'm afraid I don't have another option for you. Maybe moving the distribution to some USB drive? On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Josh Abbe wrote: > Hey everyone, > > First of all, I hope I am doing this (sending a mass email) > correctly. I > didn't see any instructions or guidelines, so here goes: > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 (Amd64). I am a complete > newbie, but I > thought I would be able to do it following the FreeBSD Hand Book. > Well, > everything looked like it was going fine. I chose a language/ > country, set > the auto configuration for the HDD partitions, and eventually got > to the > screen that asked me to choose which media to install from. I chose > CD/DVD. Then, it gave me an error saying that the system could not > detect > my CD drive. Weird...since it seemed to know the drive was there > to get me > to that point. > > Right now, installing over FTP is not an option. I posted my > problem in a > FreeBSD forum, but no one seemed to have any solutions other than > to send an > email to the DL (as I am doing now). > > The drive I am trying to install off of is the (SATA) Plextor DVDRW > (PX - > 716A/SW) > I have an ASUS A8N32-SLI mobo, an 80 Gb WD SATA HDD (where FreeBSD > will go), > a 150 Gb WD Raptor X (with Win XP currently installed), an AMD FX-60 > dual-core proc (2.6Ghz), a GeForce 7900 GTX, 2GB Corsair memory, Sound > Blaster X-Fi, etc... I cant think of any more parts that would make a > difference. > > Thank you all in advance, > ~Josh > > P.S. Remember, I am a NEWBIE!!! If anyone can think of anything > that I > could try to get this working, please give very specific steps. I > dont know > anything about Unix yet, so everything I do comes right from the > steps in > the manual. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"