From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 18 16:02:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA20165 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 16:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.dave-world.net (yaning@shell.dave-world.net [204.189.73.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA20160 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 16:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from yaning@localhost) by shell.dave-world.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA06785 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 18 May 1997 17:58:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Yaning Wang Message-Id: <199705182258.RAA06785@shell.dave-world.net> Subject: CDROM question, again To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 17:58:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk With the help from many of you (Dan Busarow, Wolfgang and others), I finally made the installation of FreeBSD 2.2.1 to my machine and it is running fine, except I still can not mount the CDROM. Some of you suggested that the CDROM(Matsushita CDROM/Panasonic Drive CR-563, connected to a soundcard) is not supported by the GENERIC kernel therefore I need to rebuild the kernel. I need to consult the manual to find how. In the meantime, if anyone out there who has successfully mounted this kind CDROM, could you please let me know the procedure ? thanks Can anyone please also tell me a type of CDROM (model, type etc) which has been proven to work with FreeBSD without any problem ?. (if I fail again, I may just buy one which is known to work). One mystery during my installation (by DOS partition): If I bootup the machine using the bootup disk (made from the CD), when I select DOS as installation medium, the error message says: DOS partition could not been found (something like that). If I bootup by using a DOS boot disk then lanuch the installation from the CD (which I can see from DOS), then everything went on very smoothly. (there are several different instruction on how to make FreeBSD boot disk. I tried all of them but ended with the same results). Thank you all very much. -- Yaning Wang ========================================================== TP Analyst Network Service, Systems Technology State Farm Insurance Companies http://homepage.dave-world.net/~yaning