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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: CDROM can not be found
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970513203243.joki@jocki.domestic.de> from Joachim Kuebart at "May 13, 97 07:02:54 pm"
To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart)
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 23:06:08 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: yaning@shell.dave-world.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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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