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From: stigmata@wwa.com (Doug Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Installation Trouble - CD-ROM not found.
Date: 26 Sep 1994 23:47:02 -0500
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I've got the Walnut Creek version of FreeBSD 1.1, and I'm attempting to 
install on a 486DX-50 using an Adapatec AHA-1542C SCSI controller, and a 
NEC 3XE Multispin CD-ROM drive.  I've created the boot floppy with 
RAWRITE using the cdins_ah.flp boot image just fine.  The system seems to 
boot fine, getting as far as welcoming me to FreeBSD, but then shorly 
thereafter, I get the following message:

	No cdrom drive found, are you sure the cd is in the
	drive and the drive is ready? Press return to make
	another attempt at finding the cdrom drive.

Hitting return of course redisplays the same message.  Is there some 
trick to installing FreeBSD with this hardware setup?  Other hardware in 
the machine, is an SMC Elite Ultra ethernet card, SoundBlaster 16 ASP 
sound card, an MPU-401 compatible midi card, a Gravis Eliminator dual 
joystick card, a 2-port serial card with 16550AFN and 16450 UART's, and a 
Diamond Stealth Pro (VLB) video card.

I'm simply trying to install FreeBSD on this machine to evaluate it.

stigmata@wwa.com