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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:13:01 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
To:        Brent J Miller <brent@ebrent.org>
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CDROM and Linux compatibilty
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212122010160.67851-100000@is>
In-Reply-To: <23B952BC-0DE4-11D7-9506-0003936728E6@ebrent.org>

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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Brent J Miller wrote:

> I'm trying to get VMWare setup on a machine running FBSD 4.7.  I got the 
> port installed and can run VMWare and the config wizard etc... however 
> it does not see my cdrom.  I verified it is mounted, but there is 
> nothing in /compat/linux/dev that points to /dev/acd0c or the mountpoint 
> /cdrom, consequently I don't know where to tell VMWare the CDROM is.  
> I've searched through the list archives but cannot find any answers.  
> Can someone please help?  Also, I asked this question on the "questions" 
> list a couple days ago and have gotten no reply, so if there is some 
> other list I need to send this to, suggestions are more than welcome.  
> Thanks very much.


I use following lines in my config:

ide1:0.present = TRUE
ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"
ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/acd0c"

/dev/acd0c is real FreeBSD device.
I have no CDROM devices in /compat/linux/dev

Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/



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