Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:16:42 +1000 From: "Don Hansford" <donh@halenet.com.au> To: "Free-BSD Newbies Mailing List" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cd-rom won't work, book & web site unhelpful Message-ID: <001401bf0b1c$2272c540$332137cb@igor> References: <000201bf0b75$23a6b3f0$dfdfdfdf@mojomatic>
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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 <bcohen@bpecreative.com> To: Free-BSD Newbies Mailing List <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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