Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:28:15 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: mgworst@rainet.com (Mike Worst) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem with CD-ROM Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000901112815.0086ddb0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <00083120070011509@rainet.com>
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At 03:05 AM 9/1/00 GMT, you wrote: >Greetings, > >I've been trying to install FreeBSD 4.1 on a 20 gig Fujitsu with a >Microsoft partition totaling 900 meg. My computer has an AMD K6-2 266 >with 64 meg of RAM. > >The boot CD-ROM runs OK, and everything seems to be running right, but >when I try to start the installation, sysinstall says "No CD-ROM device >found". > >The CD-ROM is a Teac CD-512E with an IDE/ATAPI Inrerface. It's >installed as a secondary master. > >The data transfer rate is 1,800 KB/sec sustained, 16.6 MB/sec burst. >Access time is 160 msec, and the data buffer capacity is 128 KB. > >I would be very appreciative if you can help me with this. > >Regards, >Michael G. Worst mgworst@rainet.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > That sounds familiar. When you are configuring devices at the beginning of the installation process, you may be deleting the device for the cd-rom. After the kernel is configured it's no longer able to see the device, even though that's what you booted up from. -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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