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From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! IDE CD-ROM not recognized!
Date: 27 Jun 1996 00:07:12 GMT
Organization: What? Me, organize?
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Message-ID: <4qsjbg$ci0@uuneo.neosoft.com>
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Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
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In article <avg.835780922@news.cwi.nl>, Annius Groenink <avg@cwi.nl> wrote:
>conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
>
>>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?
>
>
>Interesting. But I don't seem to be offered the possibility to
>make such a mount point when running from the install disk...
>(setup only lets me mount a primary MSDOS partition).
>
>I thought about copying part of the CDROM to a DOS partition, but
>this seems to go wrong because of the rock-ridge extensions.
You mean you're unable to copy to your DOS partition? Or what?
This is what I did to get an initial install working. It shouldn't be a
problem.
--
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads