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From: rajneesh a <rajaneesh_a@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: free bsd 5 on sony vaio r505el
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Hi,

  It is internal CDROM.. Also it is Sony IEEE. Does
Free BSD support this type... Also somewhere I  read
that FREEBSD 5.0 does not support Matshuita? Does this
have anything to do with that???

Regards
Rajaneesh

--- Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:09:27 -0800 (PST)
> rajneesh a <rajaneesh_a@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to install Free BSD5.0 on SOny Vaio...
> It
> > is able to load the boot initially and later it
> tells
> > me that it is unable to identify the CDROM...What
> > could be the possible reason for this...
> > 
> > I tried other binaries also with ohci1394.0 for
> PCMCIA
> > but it gives me insmod error...
> 
> Is your CDROM internal, or external plugged into the
> PCMCIA port? If it is
> the external type, like my PCG-SR7K, you may have to
> disable probing the
> PCMCIA interface during installation. I have yet to
> attempt installing
> FreeBSD on my VAIO, but is was a drill getting
> Mandrake Linux installed
> because of this.
> 
> Please let me know how it turns out. Also, you might
> ghet more help in the
> freebsd-mobile list.
> 
> 
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