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From: ils@jagunet.com (Stephen Conn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help - Soundblaster/CDRom/FreeBSD 2.1 Problems
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 19:06:16 GMT
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I'm currently having two problems:
1) Whe using the boot floppy to install FreeBSD, the probes are unable
to find my CDRom (CDD-110) drive. It's an IDE drive and is connected
to a Soudblaster audio card. All other DOS programs recognize the
drive at port 340. I have tried configuring the drives during the boo
process using the "-c" command. Even after inputing port 340 into all
the available CDRom devices listed, the probes are still not able to
find the CDRom.

2) I also tried to install FreeBSD via ftp. After launching the
"commit" command and pressing "<ALT><F3>" the following is returned:

ppp ON>

I thought I should have went right into the Terminal mode. Even after
entering the word "term" after the above prompt I am not able to
access the terminal window.  

Any help anone could give would be greatly appreciated.