From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 10 10:38:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20372 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20247 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:37:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA14511; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:37:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Hugh cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell cdrom - ATAPI IDE In-Reply-To: <3504C46A.1CFBAE39@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Hugh wrote: > I have this Dell Dimensions XPS 233 at work. > > I'd like to install off the CDROM (ATAPI IDE) and though it seems > to recognize it at boot-up, I can't seem to mount it. Can you be more specific? Don't forget that you need to specify `-t cd9660' on the mount command line to mount CDs. And don't try to mount audio CDs. :) > I managed to get a barebones unix on the system with a install > from a DOS partition, but attempts to mount the CDROM still gives me > device I/O errors. Odd... can I see the output of `dmesg'? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message