From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 3 09:23:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA01484 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 09:23:33 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA01471 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 09:23:29 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA08775; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:53:15 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA22710; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:53:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA19336; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:00:32 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506031500.RAA19336@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Technical support on FreeBSD Installation To: palomino@nuclecu.unam.mx (Carlos Palomino) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:00:32 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505240236.UAA00911@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> from "Carlos Palomino" at May 23, 95 08:36:14 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 867 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Carlos Palomino wrote: > > > I'm installing FreeBSD 2.0 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM. I have an Acer 486/25 > EISA with a BusLogic 742A SCSI controller to which I have attached > both a CDC 639 Mb Hard disk and a NEC Multispin CD-ROM. > I have already installed the kernel in the Hard Disk and it boots ok, but when I > get to the section in which the system asks for the source where I want > to load the binnaries from, and I choose "SCSI CD-ROM" , I get a message saying: > > "Unable to mount /dev/cd0a on /mnt" > > Is it maybe that the NEC CD-ROM is not supported? , I ask this because the > SCSI card seems to work fin with the HD. What do your boot messages say about the detected devices on the SCSI bus? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)