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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!usenet From: Jeff Dickson <jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: W.C. Live cdrom: Howto? Date: 28 Feb 1996 20:32:31 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4h2e4v$cn0@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <4h1vlo$ahh@spectator.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vtol.jpl.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c) X-URL: news:4h1vlo$ahh@spectator.cris.com Rslater@cris.com (Rick Slater) wrote: >I just purchased the Walnut Creek pair of cdroms which contain >version 2.1 of FreeBSD. One of them is a live filesystem, but >there seems to be no documentation on how to actually use that >particular cd. I've been successful in getting the installation >cd recognized (Soundblaster 16) by means of the ata boot floppy. > >Can anyone point me at the appropriate documentation or else >give a brief summary of what to do? I've tried the dos utility >"fbsdboot.exe", and it *almost* works. The boot hangs at the >point where the cdrom is about to be mounted as root (-C option). > I don't really know why the kernel you originally copy to the boot floppy isn't the one that gets installed. Afterall you do choose it based on the type of CDROM you have. You have to rebuild the kernel to include ATAPI support. Up until then attempts to mount it by hand result in the error message "device not configured". Jeff jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov