Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 18:00:54 -0700 From: "Mitch James" <mitch@hardware.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbe & install trouble with IDE CD-ROM Message-ID: <199605270112.SAA23780@dns2.noc.best.net>
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Hi All, I began my adventure by lurking in the *BSD & Linux* news groups and pooring over the three Web sites. I finally concluded that FreeBSD is my best choise to start using my own Un*x system at home. I have other uses for BSD at work but want to tame the horned creature first. ;-) I took the comments @ www.freeBSD.org literally, and pulled a couple of 386's out of the corner storage heap. I had a Reveal IDE CD-ROM that I added to the first system to use with the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM. I received and read the book Installing and Running FreeBSD, for anyone thinking about BSD should make the investment. It is a very good book and it took a lot of guess work out of installing BSD. Unfortunatly, it does not have a chapter on preventing "Operator Error", a malady I think I'm suffering from. System: 386-dx25, IDE Maxtor ~523 meg HD,5.25"FD & 3.5"FD, Logitec bus mouse, vga ISA vidio, serial ports & parallel port. IDE Reveal CD-ROM, 100 meg MS-DOS slice. I created partitions for BSD: / 32MB, swap 32MB, /var 30MB, /usr 323MB. I was not able to install from the CD-ROM directly, INST_IDE didn't see my CD after booting. Per the book I copied /dists/bin & /floppies to my MS-DOS partition. I found out after the first install I need more than the book tells us about. On the second install I copied /dists/manpages, src, in addition to the excisting. I also coppied /docs over. This is where I'm thinking my OE come into play. What other files and dirs do I need to have on the MS partition to install everything need to compile a kernel able to see an IDE CD-ROM? I was able to make a couple of kernels that didn't work with the CD-ROM. I saw errors during the install with the program looking for, dict/dict.tgz, info/info.tgz and proflibs/proflibs.tgz. I have compiled a working kernel, I uncommented the 'ATAPI & wcd0' lines in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL file. The second try at this I used almost a GENERIC version except for changing the name of the kernel and uncommenting the IDE CD instructions. I ran a third kernel and added a line, "controller wcd0" (page192) after the ATAPI I'm still been unable to mount the CD-ROM. I tried two different mount commands that were posted here recently. 'mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom' results: "mount: /cdrom: no such file or directory 'mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom' results:"mount /dev/cd9660 : no such flile or directory" I did check the /dev for the device drivers 'wcd0c & rcd0c", they were there but had 0 (zero) size.??? I also tried '#sh MAKEDEV wcd0' the script ran but there was no apparent change in the files. During the boot process I see the message at the end, "May 26 17:22:40 mitchj mount[77] can't open /var/db/mountdtab" What should I do now? re-install after copying more dirs from CD to MS-dos slice? Go out and buy a new SCSI CD-Rom? Any suggestions are appreciated. Cheers, Mitch ________________________________________________________________________ Mitch James--Poulsbo, Wa Living Near Latte' Land mitch@hardware.com James Lumber & Ace Hardware http://www.hardware.com/ www.hardware.com/complist.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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