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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unable to install from CD Date: 4 Jul 1995 16:59:57 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 66 Message-ID: <3tbs2d$4ro@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <3t9qvn$eln@gate2.internet-eireann.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, David Moore (euromall@internet-eireann.ie) had the courage to say: : HELP : sd(1,a) was I thought the most wonderful thing I had ever seen after : spending hours trying to get past 'unable to mount root'. : The install notes seem to have let me down again. : Now that I am on the hard drive to continue with the installation I : choose CD-Rom. The notes say I will now be prompted for the : 'installation subdirectory'. : I'm not. It asks for type of CD, I choose mitsumi and it tells me : 'unable to mount /dev/mcd0a /mnt' (thats from memory). : The CD is a quad speed IDE the manual says the interface is : IDE ATAPI 1.2 (SFF 8020) Bzzzzzt!! Sorry, this should be documented somewhere; ATAPI CD-ROM drives are not supported in 2.0.5. There's a chance they might be in 2.1. The only Mitsumi drives that are currently supported are those that use the proprietary Mitsumi interface, which is not the same as ATAPI. : The machine is a gateway 2000 dx2 66 with two western digital caviar : 540mb hard disks and quad speed CD Rom. Yeah yeah, I know, I know. Gateway loves to sell people machines with these crummy drives. If you can guilt them into letting you exchange it for a SCSI drive, do it. If they won't do it, complain loudly anyway. Maybe some day they'll get the point. : Can someone please help me out. : David. Your only recourse is to boot the machine into DOS and copy the tarballs off the CD onto some other supported media. If you have an MS-DOS partition on this machine (i.e. you're running both DOS and FreeBSD on the same box), then you can copy the files into a subdirectory on your DOS partition, reboot into FreeBSD and them mount the DOS partition. (Be careful to preserve the filesystem structure as it appears on the CD; make a top level FREEBSD directory, then make a BIN directory for the bin.?? files, an SRC directory for the sources, etc...) If you don't have a DOS partition available, your only other option is to copy the files onto DOS floppies and do a floppy install. (You could also install from tape, but you didn't say you had a tape drive, so...) Sorry, but dems da breaks. Hopefully the support for these drives won't be long in coming; these drives are becoming annoyingly popular. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~