From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 00:26:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA25038 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 00:26:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from bambi.pomona.edu (bambi.pomona.edu [134.173.64.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA25033 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 00:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from POMONA.EDU by POMONA.EDU (PMDF V5.0-4 #12356) id <01HZ4L69JZMO8WW3FA@POMONA.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 00:26:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 00:26:06 -0800 (PST) From: JOHN Subject: IDE CDROM - installation of 2.1.0 RELEASE To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01HZ4L69L8UA8WW3FA@POMONA.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"questions@freebsd.org" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Well, I tried both the inst_ide.bat and atapiflp.bat methods to try to install FreeBSD from my 4x CDROM drive (NEC). But it was not detected. So I used the "-c" option at the boot prompt, selected the visual process, and got rid of all conflicts that I could see. That left two isa IDE devices, wdc0 and wdc1. After continuing, wdc1 is detected, whereas normally just wdc0 is listed as my hard drive and wdc1 is not detected. So I thought, maybe? But no luck, the installation still did not detect my CDROM. Is the IDE CDROM kkkernl so new that I should consider myself SOL with an IDE CDROM, or being an extreme newbie to FreeBSD, are there other options I can try. PLEASE! :) I want to figure this out. As a side not, in a few weeks I will have access to an ethernet connection to the internet. If I can not get the CDROM to work, how fast can I expect the FTP installation to be? Yes, I know, depends upon bandwidth/usage, but is it really a practical way to install FreeBSD? Thanks for anything and everything! John