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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 w/ SB AWE32 & Misumi CD Rom
Date: 18 Feb 1995 05:32:02 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana
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In article <3hr8gf$d96@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
Gregory C. Causey <gcc@lal.eeap.cwru.edu> wrote:
>I just got my cd copy of freebsd 2.0. I have begun to 
>install it onto my pc (Cornell 486-66, 20 mb ram, WD ide 
>hard drives 345mb & 540mb, mitsumi 2x cdrom on sb awe 32 interface)
>Everything seems to be going fine until the install program
>asks for the source of the bindist, xwin, ... .  I specify 
>a mitsumi cd rom and the program says unable to mount.

I suspect the boot program wasn't smart enough to try both mcd0 and
mcd1, so it never even tried mcd1.  Send a bug report to
freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org to make sure this get's logged and hopefully
it'll get fixed in 2.1.


Nate
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