Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:45:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: csidwell@ix22.ix.netcom.com (Charles Sidwell) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Installation woes Message-ID: <199610101645.SAA03561@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199610101635.JAA08219@dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com> from "Charles Sidwell" at Oct 10, 96 09:35:01 am
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Charles Sidwell writes: > > Greg, > Thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion and, as expected, the > keyboard was locked. With some tinkering I managed to discover that if I > ran the utility on the cd that prints the geography (which actually seems to > reset something since it requires a reboot), reboot the system, then hit the > down arrow while the kernel is loading, I usually get control of the keyboard. Oh pain. I think you really need to try another keyboard. > NOW, I managed to get completely through the preinstall, but as soon as it > ask me to select the installation media, I select CD-ROM, and the system > tells me that there is no CD-ROM. I used the pre-install off of the CD, and > the separate boot from floppy with the same results. > Someone told me that there may be a problem because the CD is running off of > an IDE interface on a SoundBlaster card. Could this be a problem? Definitely, unless it's SCSI, which it doesn't sound like. Other Soundblaster CD-ROM interfaces aren't supported. > If so, do you think that a separate ide card would help? Maybe. It depends on your CD-ROM. Before you go out and buy one, try disconnecting your first disk, connecting your 2nd disk as primary, and the CD-ROM as secondary on the IDE interface. If you can install it like that, it's worth the trouble to buy another IDE interface. > I don't have any ide interfaces available on my mother board. But the disks are IDE, right? Greg
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