Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:19:38 +0000 From: Darach Ennis <arsenic@iol.ie> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 2.2.5 - Refuses to install Goddammit. Message-ID: <2.2.32.19971215001938.009473a8@gpo.iol.ie>
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Hello everyone again, Thanks to y'all for your advice... but it still won't install. I did resolve all conflicts. My CDROM drive is not support by freebsd. But i still dont understand why it wont install!!! I resolved all conflicts. I created a new partition and labeled it in the label editor. I did all the other configuration stuff. It just wont recognize my cdrom drive. It is an ATAPI Toshiba XM-5602B. It uses Port 0x170 Not sure what flag settings are so set them to 0x0. I don't know what else to do with my 4 frisby set... I haven't enough space to copy the distribution to my HD and use the dos file system option... How the program can succesfully ask for disk 2 and read info from it and not copy files from it when going through the distributions is beyond me... The error it gives me whilst going through installation is that it failed to mount it. Also at the kernel startup screen there is a lot of DEBUG info when trying to find the cdrom device. I don't know what else to do to get it installed. All i have to show for my last week and a halfs efforts is a 1.2 Gig Freebsd partition that doesn't do anything... Anyway, thanks for your help the last time, at least now i have ruled out the possibility of conflicts... Maybe after your next helpful messages, ill finaly get the danged thing isntalled (so i can start using the gimp, and install my cusomized xearth)... Is there any way i can fool the installation program into finding my cdrom drive... Can I pass it along as a dos dir? ie: x:\ <-- thats my cdrom root... install the danged binaries! thats all i want to tell the isntall program... Anyway, thanks again for your help... Yours Sincerely, Darach Ennis.
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