From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 07:30:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA29362 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 07:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.scsn.net (root@ns2.scsn.net [206.25.246.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA29351 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 07:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.25.246.143] (cola143.scsn.net [206.25.246.143]) by ns2.scsn.net (8.7.1/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA27328 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:29:49 -0500 X-Sender: suk@scsn.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:37:41 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: suk@pobox.com (Peter Kwangjun Suk) Subject: Installation problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The Installation program doesn't recognize my cdrom! (even after I boot from cdrom) (Please excuse me if my information is irrelevant. I am a longtime Unix user, but know nothing about PC hardware.) I have a AM486dx100 with IDE bus. At Windows95 boot time, the messages displayed about the cdrom are: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CD-ROM Device Driver Version 4.11 Copyright (C) Creative Technology Ltd, and Copyright (C) Matsuchita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries, Ltd. 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993. All rights reserved. Drive Name = MSCD000 Supporting the following units: unit 0 id 1 MATSUSHITA CD-ROM CR-563-x 1.02 1 CD-ROM drives(s) connected CD-ROM device driver installed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The CD-ROM is connected to a soundblaster card. The CD-ROM gets installed as drive E: I can go into MSDOS from Windows95, and run view.exe on drive E:, which lets me choose the install.bat. However when it comes time to choose the installation media, a message pops up saying that no cdroms are installed. The same with booting off the floppy. Can I do something with booting using -c option so that my cdrom gets recognized? Thanks. --PKS There's neither heaven nor hell -- Save that we grant ourselves. There's neither fairness nor justice -- Save what we grant each other. Peter Kwangjun Suk -- suk@pobox.com -- Musician, CSCI Graduate Student [keyservers or finger suk@pobox.com for PGP public key]