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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ns.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!tuegate.tue.nl!news.IAEhv.nl!oosten!root From: root@oosten.IAEhv.nl (Peter Joosten) Subject: Re: HELP. BSD2.1 cannot see IDE CDROM Organization: At Home Inc., The Netherlands Message-ID: <DLw2BA.tw@oosten.IAEhv.nl> References: <4eehjt$3og@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:23:34 GMT Lines: 22 In article <4eehjt$3og@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Pecunious <pecunious@aol.com> wrote: > >I recently got BSD 2.1 which has the experimental driver for IDE CDROMs. ... >I tried both the INST_IDE.bat and the boot image ATAPI.???. But when it >is time to select the installation medium, BSD cannot find my Toshiba >cdrom. > Do not install from CDROM. I had trouble with the installation ATAPI-boot floppy too. I installed FreeBSD 2.1 from a DOS-partition, and configured the ATAPI driver into the kernel afterwards. This works fine for me: I can use my IDE CDROM. I hope this will work for you too. Greetings Peter Joosten peterj@IAEhv.nl