From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 5 15:59: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E9814D16 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA15004; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:00:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907052300.TAA15004@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: install problem In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990705124256.00964d40@mail.min.net> from Brian Orbell at "Jul 5, 99 12:50:37 pm" To: bo@min.net (Brian Orbell) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:00:01 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Orbell 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. ATAPI CDROMs are always IDE CDROMs, if I am not mistaken. Your CDROM should be found during the probe of the IDE controllers. People have reported problems finding CDROMs with atypical IDE setups (e.g. a CDROM on the secondary controller as a slave, but with no device as master). How is yours set up? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message