From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 14:36:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA13624 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 14:36:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.scsn.net (root@ns2.scsn.net [206.25.246.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA13609 Tue, 9 Jan 1996 14:36:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.25.246.57] (cola57.scsn.net [206.25.246.57]) by ns2.scsn.net (8.7.1/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA07669; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 17:36:47 -0500 X-Sender: suk@scsn.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 17:43:23 -0500 To: info@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org From: suk@pobox.com (Peter Kwangjun Suk) Subject: Install won't recognize my cdrom Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The Installation program doesn't recognize my cdrom! (even after I boot from cdrom) (Please excuse me if my information is irrelevant. I am a longtime Unix user, but know nothing about PC hardware.) I have a AM486dx100 with IDE bus. At Windows95 boot time, the messages displayed about the cdrom are: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CD-ROM Device Driver Version 4.11 Copyright (C) Creative Technology Ltd, and Copyright (C) Matsuchita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries, Ltd. 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993. All rights reserved. Drive Name = MSCD000 Supporting the following units: unit 0 id 1 MATSUSHITA CD-ROM CR-563-x 1.02 1 CD-ROM drives(s) connected CD-ROM device driver installed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The CD-ROM is connected to a soundblaster card. The CD-ROM gets installed as drive E: I can go into MSDOS from Windows95, and run view.exe on drive E:, which lets me choose the install.bat. However when it comes time to choose the installation media, a message pops up saying that no cdroms are installed. The same with booting off the floppy. I have tried using the -c option on the installation kernel boot, and doing iomem matcdc -1 No dice. I also booted up Windows95 on my machine, and looked at the port address listed for the cdrom, which was 0340. I tried interpreting that as both a Hex and an Octal number, and tried that for port and iomem. I'm just about ready to throw in the towel. Thanks. --PKS There's neither heaven nor hell -- Save that we grant ourselves. There's neither fairness nor justice -- Save what we grant each other. Peter Kwangjun Suk -- suk@pobox.com -- Musician, CSCI Graduate Student [keyservers or finger suk@pobox.com for PGP public key]