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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.bctel.net!news.mag-net.com!aurora.cs.athabascau.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!tribune.usask.ca!usenet From: Luke Wadel <anyservice@usa.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Please help with IDE CDROM installation Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:54:35 -0700 Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3247BDEB.5AFE@usa.net> Reply-To: anyservice@usa.net NNTP-Posting-Host: janus2-4.usask.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) This is the second time I am attempting an installation of FreeBSD. The first time, my extended partitions got messed up and DOS Ramdrives ceased to work. Because I did not want to recreate the problem (due to possible data loss on extended partitions), I was unable to get enough data to go through a real troubleshooting session. Now, on a different system, I am trying to install the stable 2.10 FreeBSD. There are 2 harddrives on the first EIDE controller, and a Mitsumi 2x Atapi (IDE) CD-Rom drive on the secondary controller. Both controllers run well off of a VLB card. For complex reasons, I am unable to try changing the jumper on the CD-Rom drive to Slave to see if it might work this time. However, it is the only drive on the controller, so I think it ought to be set as Master. I tried booting from an ATAPI.FLP floppy, and I tried the INST_IDE.BAT approach. As usual, I was able to get through all installation menus, but the CD-Rom was not recognized when it mattered. So, is there anything else I can try? Is there some new software, or if I do a minimum DOS-based installation, will I be able to boot up FreeBSD normally and run off of the Live-CD (that is, should this problem persist after installation?) I am fairly new to FreeBSD and Unix, so I would rather not reconfigure a kernal. I have the DOS PLIP and SOSS (NFS server) and propper hardware on both systems, so I might try accessing the software remotely through DOS, but I definately don't have the time to wade through enormous documentation and reading to set it up without help. Surely IDE Cd-Roms are common enough now that there is some solution for this by now? Can someone help me? Thanks in advance! -Luke Wadel lrw118@mail.usask.ca