From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 21:37:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA00766 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:37:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00759 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:37:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA03483; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:37:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:37:47 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Hector Samalot cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: atapi and 2.1.7 (was: Re: your mail) In-Reply-To: <9702120050.AA01497@nj2.n-jcenter.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Feb 2097, Hector Samalot wrote: > can use a 2.1.7 boot floppy and then use the 2.1.6 cd room to do the > installation? The reason being is that my CDROM is not being detected by > the 2.1.6 boot floppy. Then it almost certainly won't be detected by the 2.1.7 boot floppy. 2.1.7 is a bug-fix release, nothing more. You're far better off trying it with 2.2, which has better support for ATAPI CD-ROMs. Have you tried the standard tricks? That is: 1) make sure your CD-ROM is supported (obvious, I know, I'm just including it for completeness) 2) try configuring it as a slave on the primary IDE channel 3) try configuring it as a master on the secondary IDE channel It's a mystery, as far as I know, but 2) and 3) tend to work. Best of luck. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."