From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 30 13:14:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joe.halenet.com.au (joe.halenet.com.au [203.37.141.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC25159FE for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:14:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Received: from igor (modem-51-warw.halenet.com.au [203.55.33.51]) by joe.halenet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA04326 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 06:27:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Message-ID: <001401bf0b1c$2272c540$332137cb@igor> From: "Don Hansford" To: "Free-BSD Newbies Mailing List" References: <000201bf0b75$23a6b3f0$dfdfdfdf@mojomatic> Subject: Re: cd-rom won't work, book & web site unhelpful Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:16:42 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Connecting CDROMs via the sound card went out with button-up boots! Unless it is an old 1x or 2x drive with a proprietary interface, try hooking it into the IDE bus (set it as a slave, first). Otherwise, you have to enable the sound card before you can enable the CDROM. Regards Igor Difference between computers & air-conditioners? Not much, neither work well when you open windows! ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Cohen To: Free-BSD Newbies Mailing List Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:53 AM Subject: cd-rom won't work, book & web site unhelpful > I know this isn't the forum for questions but I have tried > subscribing to the questions mailing list and can't tell > whether it's taken. Everytime I send in the authorization I > get a set of mail that consists of Majordomo results and > Confirmation for subscribe . . . . > > Anyhow: > > I just bought the 3.3 release and can't complete the > installation because BSD won't recognize my CD-ROM. I've > got a Pentium system w/PCI, scsi hard disk, network card, us > robotics modem, and sound card. > > The CD-ROM is connected to the bus via an OEM sound card > configured as a SB16. The vanilla kernel doesn't work nor > does reconfiguring the kernel by hand by changing the IRQ > and port to match the settings reported to me by the Win95 > System Resources Report. I've also tried using the IRQ and > port for the sound card. Neither works. Any guidance would > be appreciated. Would a DOS installation make more sense? > I'd hate to lose the CD-ROM capability. Thanks. > > Bob Cohen > > b.p.e.Creative Web Design and Production > P.O. Box 192 508.384.6054 > Sheldonville, MA 02093 bcohen@bpecreative.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message