From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 13:50:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC2E15555 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:50:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 1234V1-000C7X-00; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:49:47 +0000 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:49:47 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Vonnie Gurgin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question re: CD-ROM Message-ID: <19991228214947.B46546@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.1.19991228091409.009c1c80@idiom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991228091409.009c1c80@idiom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vonnie Gurgin wrote: > I'll like to install FreeBSD via my CD-ROM. I can boot from it > but get the message "No CD-ROM device found" when I try to use > it as the installation media. It is a Delta 44x IDE CD-ROM. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. Is the drive configured as a slave when in fact it is the only device on its controller? I believe this would cause problems similar to yours. If this is the case, reconfigure it to be master. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message