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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! IDE CD-ROM not recognized!
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 96 01:12:25 GMT
Organization: What? Me, organize?
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In article <avg.835353980@news.cwi.nl>, avg@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink) wrote:
>
>I think they must have made a mistake with the ATAPI.FLP disk.
Seems probable. :-)
>I tried `atapi.flp', but its kernel doesn't even contain a wcd0
>device. I type '-c', then 'visual', and neither of the active or
>inactive lists contains a `wcd0'. It loads the setup program fine
>(i.e. doesn't hang at the end of boot), but starts complaining as soon
>as I select `CD' for installation source media.
Even now that I've gotten my CD mounted under FreeBSD, I can't simply select
"CD-ROM" as my media in sysinstall. I have to choose "Existing file system"
and give it the mount point ("/cdrom"). Kind of counter-intuitive, isn't
it?
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Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/