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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!usenet.mcs.kent.edu!condor.mcs.kent.edu!delozier From: delozier@condor.mcs.kent.edu (Greg Delozier) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Use of NEC SCSI for CD-ROM under 386bsd? Date: 13 Jul 1993 15:10:13 GMT Organization: Kent State University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <21uj8l$3ib@usenet.mcs.kent.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mcs.kent.edu We're trying to install 386bsd from a CD-ROM containing the 386bsd distribution and have run into a problem: Once the base 386 system has been installed from the DOS floppy images (bin01, etc...) the resulting system won't use the CD-ROM drive to get the unix files on it that contain X, gcc, etc. We've noted that the CD-ROM's SCSI card only seems to support addresses 0X340 & 0X350, presumably to avoid conflict with the (nonexistent) hard drive SCSI card generally found at address 0x330. Any suggestions? I have noted the NetBSD info sheet discusses an 'auto- magical' configuration of SCSI CD-ROMs, but I'd hate to download that whole distribution (time & $$) when I've got a perfectly good bsd+patchkit on this CD-ROM. I hate to bring this up, but the CD-ROM also has Linux on it. Will this leave me in the same predicament? Any suggestions? -greg --- Greg DeLozier/Senior Scientific Analyst/Loral Defense Systems