Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 23:06:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Cc: yaning@shell.dave-world.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM can not be found Message-ID: <199705132106.XAA09233@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970513203243.joki@jocki.domestic.de> from Joachim Kuebart at "May 13, 97 07:02:54 pm"
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> Hi! > > On 13-May-97 at 01:00:42 Yaning Wang wrote: > > > >My CD is connected with a soundcard (Matshita CDROM/Panasonic Drive CR-563), > >however, it is supported by FreeBSD 2.2.1 according to The Complete FreeBSD > >(Walnut Creek CDROM). But it just can not be recognized. Each time during the > > I blieve this is correct -- CDROMs on sound cards are supported by FreeBSD, but > not by the GENERIC kernel used by sysinstall -- P-p-please d-d-don't guillotine > me if I'm wrong, g-g-guys! Ok Joachim, you see the guillotine over there? The Matsushita CDROM is supported by the GENERIC kernel -- But there are some idiosyncrasis to it that are addressed in the FAQ section of HARDWARE.TXT on the CD. > > >installation, whenever I chose CDROM as the installation medium, the error > >message says: CD-ROM can not be found. (I bootup from DOS and launch the > >installation from the CD-ROM). Therefore, I was forced to divid my 2nd HD > >as two partitions inorder to use DOS partition to install (which works). > > Good. > > >The problem is the 2nd disk is too small and I do not know how to reclaim > >the DOS partition (I want use whole 2nd disk for FreeBSD). The bigger > > Hmmm. Do you want to use the spare partition for /usr? Or /? or /var? If not, > where do you want to mount it? Well, I'll leave that to you. > > In order to make a FreeBSD file system on the spare partition use > fdisk wd1 > and set the sysid in question to 165 (FreeBSD). Two objections: It is generally a bad idea to have to FreeBSD slices on one disk. Some software in the bootblocks don't handle them well. I guess it is easier to use /stand/sysinstall to reconfigure the disk. Do a # /stand/sysinstall after installation and select `7 Custom' from the main menu. From the custom installation menu select `2 Partition' to reconfigure the slices and `3 Label' to allocate the partitions. (In FreeBSD jargon a disk is cut into `slices' and each slice that is used for FreeBSD is cut into `partitions', in the rest of the world `slices' are called `partitions') Wolfgang
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