From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 00:02:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA27997 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA27988 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:02:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA00903; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:00:23 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma000894; Wed Nov 6 10:00:00 1996 Message-ID: <3280458A.2D92@barcode.co.il> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:00:10 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: klykken@bigblue.no CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: FreeBSD install on Creative CD-ROM References: <327F89EF.A2A@bigblue.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lars K Klykken wrote: > > Hi! > > sorry if some of you find this as a lame question answered in some of > the FAQ's or manuals (i've gone through www.freebsd.org without finding > a solution, without luck..) > > I have just received the the FreeBSD 2.1.5 distribution from Walnut > Creek CDROM, but I have major problems installing it. When asked what > media to install from, I choose CDROM as I probably should, but the > program tells me that it can't find any CDROM drive. I _have_ created a > bootdisk, and I have looked into the UserEdit, trying to put the > Creative-driver port to -1 (0xffffff?) Upon boot-time, it seems to > respond that it can't find the device, and I don't have any idea how to > proceed, and would like help on this... > > Although it's irellevant (i think) i'll specify the system details on > this machine: > > CPU: 486/33 (yuck!) > RAM: 20 HDD: 710MB > Operating system: Windows 95 (yuck!) > CD-ROM: Blaster-CD 6x PnP with ISA-controller (IDE) > > I'll greatly appreciate any assistance you may offer, as this is > starting to get me crazy... I assume your CDROM is an EIDE device. If so, connect it as the slave to the motherboards controller (on teh same bus as your hard disk) and not to teh SoundBlaster. The wcd driver does not seem to support ATAPI CDROMs connected to sound cards. > > -- > Lars K Klykken, Student at Otto Treider in Oslo, Norway > http://home.sn.no/home/kklykken/myself.html Nadav