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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP! IDE CD-ROM not recognized! Date: 17 Jun 1996 04:48:09 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4q2o29$nlj@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4pv7nq$14c_004@mypc.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote: >PCI EIDE interface (2 ports). The CD is configured as a master on the 2nd >IDE interface. I have no docs on how to change it to slave, so that FreeBSD >will recognize it. If you can get a minimal system installed, perhaps via a DOS partition, it's only a one line change, if I recall correctly, to configure a kernel to support your configuration. From there, if you are really adventurous, you can try to make an installation floppy that you can use for future installations. How to do this is not well documented, which is why it will be an adventure. Apparently, FreeBSD is only set up to do this easily as part of making a complete release, so it takes a lot of fiddling to do it otherwise. At least, that's what I was told by email by someone who had done it when I asked a few months ago. --Tim Smith