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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2000 19:39:52 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Ryan Callicoat <scallic1@tampabay.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CD Rom
Message-ID:  <387FEC08.25395802@3-cities.com>
References:  <3.0.6.32.20000114205337.00795e70@mail.liquidrain.com>

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Ryan Callicoat wrote:
> 
> hi i just recently bought the FreeBSD power pack 3.3
> and during install it asks how i want to install it and i choose cd rom and
> it says there is no cdrom devices
> yet i can use any other distrib fine.
> its iam gussing a generic atapi 32x cdrom works great
> how can i make it install from cdrom i mean i have 10 cds here i would like
> to install anyhelp would be greatly apreaciated

What kind of CDROM do you have? 

Most problems of this sort are caused by the CDROM being on the
secondary IDE channel but not as a master device. Some systems will
recognize singular secondary slave but FreeBSD will not.

Kent

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