From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 21:38:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95AF414FE6 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:38:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from JADE (kenn1099.bossig.com [208.26.241.99]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with SMTP id ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:45:40 -0800 Message-ID: <013501bf5288$1e28e650$0400fea9@JADE> From: "Kent Stewart" To: , "Arcady Genkin" References: <0.8cf3908f.259c43d3@cs.com> <87so0lxaiw.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:38:34 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arcady Genkin" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... > Soulofwolf899@cs.com writes: > > > I am happy to give FreeBSD a chance to prove itself to me but I cannot unless > > I can install it! If you have not fixed it in this version then please keep > > my e-mail on file so you can notify me when you have. > > This is quite amusing. May we also pay you for using FreeBSD? ;^) > > > ps - after spending an hour of my time moving the blasted pin on my CD-ROM to > > every possible combination, without of course the manual, in order to make a > > "slave", I gave up and I have no desire to do it again. Make sure to let me > > know when FreeBSD is as easy to install as ANY of my LINUX packages; > > including RedHat 6.1 and TurboLinux 4. > > What does the CD-ROM's jumper have to do with installing an OS? If it > worked with other OS's, then it should be deemed workable, and let the > jumper alone. It has a lot to do with it. Some drives aren't detected when they are the only device and jumpered as a slave on the secondary IDE channel. A couple don't want to be the master on the secondary IDE channel but work just fine as a slave behind the HD on the primary IDE channel. My Teac is the master on the secondary IDE channel. The slave on the secondary channel is a WD 3.1GB HD. I looked at all of the IDE CDROM's that I have and the have either 3 or 5 jumper locations. The right three have text above them saying something like (cs or csel), (ma or master), and (sl or slave). Kent > > If you really care to get meaningful responses, why don't you post > what exactly happens when you are trying to install from CD-ROM? > > I'll try not to forget to let you know when the entire FreeBSD core > team has finished fixing installation problem with symptoms "moving > jumper on CD-ROM between Master and Slave doesn't help". ;^) > > Happy new year! > -- > Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com > "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who > loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message