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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!news.mathworks.com!zib-berlin.de!irz401!narcisa.sax.de!not-for-mail From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installing from Adaptec 1510 & NEC84 problem Date: 13 Mar 1995 11:06:09 +0100 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3k15eh$e8f@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <3jlcop$86q@feenix.metronet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit David K. Merriman <merriman@metronet.com> wrote: >I've gotten FreeBSD 2.0 installed from floppies, but don't yet have the\ bindist installed. The problem I'm running >into is that the installation program is looking for CD0, and my bootlog\ shows that the CDROM is on AIC0 (an >NEC 84j hanging off an Adaptec 1510). > >How do I let the installation routine know where to find the CDROM, so I\ can install off it, rather than having to >put all that stuff on floppies? You normally don't need to tell anything. The default for FreeBSD is to have `unwired' SCSI devices, i.e. the subunit numbers are `floating' and will be assigned as the devices are being probed. So if you only have one SCSI CD-ROM, it will always become cd0. (FreeBSD 2.1 will also support `wired' devices, as an option.) Is your SCSI adapter probed succesfully? Did it also find the cd0 there? Perhaps you can show the relevant parts from the device probe messages here. -- cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)