Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:57:37 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: grl@marconi.ih.lucent.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot mount CDROM Message-ID: <199607122157.VAA01830@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9607121609.AA15446@toolman.ih.lucent.com> (grl@marconi.ih.lucent.com)
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>>>>> grl@marconi.ih.lucent.com writes: > > FreeBSD: > - Can I install from CDROM? > I'm tring to install FreeBSD 2.1 (from CD ROM) to an > HP Vectra with an IDE drive (Western Digital 1.6G). > I picked up the 2.2-960612-SNAP Boot floppy from the FTP > site and noticed that it does recognize my CDROM on boot. > The Hard Drive and CDROM are on separate controllers. > I never see the CDROM light come on (FreeBSD is in the drive) > and the boot says "media unknown." > Install allows me to select CDROM media without complaints but > when it tries to access it, the mount fails: > > Error mounting /dev/wcd0c on /cdrom - Input/Output error (5) Is this with the atapi.flp image? Perhaps you may have better luck with the one from 2.1.5, when that is available. (Unfortunately IDE CDROM support hasn't come as far or as fast as we'd have liked, and it's really not much more than alpha code. Sorry). > (I was able to install the basic package by coping to DOS but still > could not install any packages. Thought maybe the symbolic links > didn't copy to DOS - it read the Package Index bvt could not > access the packages). This is due to DOS's stupid filesystem limitations. If you rename them as "the first eight letters, then a dot, then tgz", this should work (eg gronkulator-3.6beta.tar.gz goes to gronkula.tgz). > - Matrox and FreeBSD? > I have a Matrox Millenium video card and understand it is not > supported by FreeBSD. Just to clarify, it is X86Free that does not support it, not FreeBSD. As far as I'm aware, this card should work in console mode. > Also heard that I can use X-Inside with > FreeBSD and this card to run X-applications. Is this correct? Yes (this is a commercial product that costs about $100, BTW). > I'll be using it to display X-applications on the PC at home > from the UNIX-Sun systems at work (via 28.8 modem/PPP for now). Should be no problem - there's a good section in the Handbook on setting up PPP. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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