Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:31:29 -0500 (CDT) From: phil@ipal.net To: thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se (Thomas Uhrfelt) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing 3.1 from CD Message-ID: <199909131731.MAA30763@ipal.net> In-Reply-To: <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBMENACIAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> from "Thomas Uhrfelt" at Sep 13, 99 11:29:36 am
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Thomas Uhrfelt wrote:
> Just a question, is the CDrom on the master slot? Please inform us of the
> current setup (channels etc)
Two machines have:
ASUS MEL-M motherboard, Celeron 333 Mhz CPU
IDE primary master: removeable harddrive (power down to remove)
IDE primary slave: not usable
IDE secondary master: CDROM
IDE secondary slave: empty
One machine has (this machine is a dedicated router):
ASUS MEL-M motherboard, Celeron 333 Mhz CPU
IDE primary master: empty
IDE primary slave: empty
IDE secondary master: CDROM
IDE secondary slave: empty
One machine has:
Intel SR440BX motherboard, Pentium-II 400 MHz CPU
IDE primary master: removeable harddrive (power down to remove)
IDE primary slave: not usable
IDE secondary master: CDROM
IDE secondary slave: Iomega ZIP
One machine has:
ASUS P2B-VM motherboard, Pentium-II 400 MHz CPU
IDE primary master: IDE drive with Redhat 6.0
IDE primary slave: empty
IDE secondary master: removeable harddrive (power down to remove)
IDE secondary slave: not usable
SCSI target 0: Yamaha CD/RW 4416S
SCSI target 1: Iomega ZIP
SCSI target 2: Iomega ZIP
SCSI target 3: Sony SDT-9000 DAT tape
SCSI target 4: empty
SCSI target 5: empty
SCSI target 6: Philips PCA-80 CDROM
SCSI target 7: Adaptec 2940 controller
All 5 machines have Netgear FA-310-TX network card.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of phil@ipal.net
> > Sent: den 13 september 1999 06:07
> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: installing 3.1 from CD
> >
> >
> > Back in March I purchased the Walnut Creek 4 CD set version 3.1.
> > A few weeks later I proceeded to actually try to install it. The
> > kernel came up and let me do some configuration. Eventually I
> > got to the actual install part. An install program started up.
> > However it soon gave an error message claiming that it could not
> > find my CD, or maybe that it could find no CDs. That made no
> > sense since the CD drive is there and is working fine. I know
> > that because the kernel booted from the CD and was able to read
> > the install program from it.
> >
> > I initially asked for some help on IRC (maybe this was the big
> > mistake). Over the course of a couple weeks of asking, 3 people
> > offered to help. After describing the problem, all 3 said my
> > hardware was broken. But that can't be the case since Linux
> > (Redhat and Slackware) and Windows (98 and NT) as well as the
> > FreeBSD kernel, have no problem reading the drive. When that was
> > explained, one of them finally said it might be because I had the
> > CDROM attached as IDE secondary master.
> >
> > I've ruled out specific problems with specific motherboards now,
> > as I've tried doing the install on 4 different ones (ASUS MEL-M,
> > ASUS P2B-VM, Intel SR440BX, and TYAN Tomcat-III), using CD drives
> > by 3 different manufacturers (Kenwood, Mitsumi, and Sony), all
> > IDE.
> >
> > All the harddrives are IDE, and in removeable trays that prevent
> > attaching the CDROM as primary slave. If FreeBSD can't handle
> > this situation, I just want someone know really knows to tell me
> > that so I can stop wasting time with it. Since it seems that the
> > kernel did read from the drive OK, I would think this is not a
> > problem. And since quite many PCs are built similarly (CDROM
> > attached as secondary master instead of primary slave) it would
> > surely not be something support would be lacking for.
> >
> > But maybe it is the install program that is goofed up? That would
> > be more believeable. But does someone really know if it is or not?
> >
> > If there is all indication that everything should work with this
> > hardware configuration, then what steps could I do during the
> > installation to determine what it things would be the problem?
> > Are there any hidden, secret, or just plain non-obvious places to
> > look or commands to run, or whatever, that would diagnose it?
> > I haven't tried the CD for a few months. But if someone knows
> > things I might do to get it to work, or to get more diagnostics,
> > I'll give it another go.
> >
> > I don't know if this address is a mailing list or what, but I am not
> > on it, so I won't get any answers unless mailed directly to me (and
> > I'm not interested in subscribing to any more mailing lists). So
> > if you could reply directly back, that would be most appreciated.
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > Phil Howard
> > phil@ipal.org
> >
> >
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