Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:24:43 -0800 From: "Keith Kelly" <c0d3h4x0r@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD 4.9: Installation: CD-ROM problems Message-ID: <Sea1-DAV43RxBW03JNd0002b38e@hotmail.com>
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>From the FreeBSD FAQ = (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#NO-INS= TALL-CDROM<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.h= tml#NO-INSTALL-CDROM>): ------------------ 3.16. I booted from my ATAPI CDROM, but the install program says no = CDROM is found. Where did it go? The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured CDROM drive. Many = PCs now ship with the CDROM as the slave device on the secondary IDE = controller, with no master device on that controller. This is illegal = according to the ATAPI specification, but Windows plays fast and loose = with the specification, and the BIOS ignores it when booting. This is = why the BIOS was able to see the CDROM to boot from it, but why FreeBSD = cannot see it to complete the install. Reconfigure your system so that the CDROM is either the master device on = the IDE controller it is attached to, or make sure that it is the slave = on an IDE controller that also has a master device. ------------------- Well, I'm hitting exactly this problem with the install program after = booting off the CD, but in my case the CDROM *is* the slave device on an = IDE controller that also has a master device! My configuration is as = follows: - IDE1 master: hard drive - IDE1 slave: hard drive - IDE2 master: hard drive - IDE2 slave: CD-ROM drive I'm a long-time Windows user who has dabbled in Linux and hated a lot = about it. After reading about FreeBSD, I'm really excited to install it = and try it out. But I can't even get into the installation process = because of this issue. Can anyone help? I've searched newsgroup and e-mail list archives and = have found nothing relevant. - Keith
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