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#! rnews 1634 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!netnews.worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: Ray P <@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FS: FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE CD Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:55:20 -0700 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <325E8A08.1DAD@worldnet.att.net> References: <325DDA16.65D28071@ix.netcom.com> <325E578F.733A@worldnet.att.net> <53lr26$2f@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.denver-2.co.dial-access.att.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01E (Win95; U) Nathan V Patwardhan wrote: > > Ray P (@worldnet.att.net) wrote: > > : I'll sell mine for the same, i cant seem to get any help making it work > : with an ide cdrom drive. > > I was under the impression that this CD was Rockridge, not ISO9660. My > ide/atapi CDROM player reads ISO cds only. The same might hold true for > you? > > HTH > > Nate > nvp@nfic.com mine says it is iso0660 it is the walnut creek version, and it seems to identify it as the correct cdrom, nec:273, but then it says on the next line that it is a 500k/s 500k cache disk, then further down in the boot, it says timeout getting status of mcd0c and it will not work to install or mount later. Any suggestions, as I would like to keep freebsd, but i dont like having to install from dos partition, and want the availability of my cdrom drive. mailto:icewolf@dimensional.com