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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Small amount of help needed,,, Please?
Date: 13 Jun 1997 09:25:05 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <01bc76c9$175546e0$2ef5face@machine>,
"Mark" <mrstevens@monmouth.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am going to install FreeBSD 2.21 onto my machine
> that has Windows95 on the first HD that is set to master
> on the primary controller, I want FreeBSD installed on my
> second HD which is set to master on the secondary
> controller, but I have my IDE CD rom drive installed on
> The secondary controller as slave.
> I heard that FreeBSD will not recognize an IDE CD Rom
> drive unless it is set to Master on either controllers.
> If this is true, does anyone have any suggestions as what
> I should do?
I think the problem was if you had your CD-ROM as slave on
a controller that had no master, FreeBSD wouldn't detect it.
I don't know if that's still a problem.
You can always try booting from the install floppy. When you
get the sysinstall menu, press PAUSE and PGUP to see the boot
messages - you'll see your CD-ROM mentioned if FreeBSD can
see it.
> Thank You
>
> Mark
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !