Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 22:54:29 -0400 From: Steven Lacomis <slacomis@erols.com> To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! CD-ROM drive not recognized (still more added information enclosed) Message-ID: <32080565.4F67@erols.com> References: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960806185411.106155A-100000@homer01.u.washington.edu>
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Ken Marsh wrote: > > This is my suggested quick fix, there may or may not be a better way.. > > put your CD-ROM on the primary controller as slave. Be sure to set the > jumpers on the CD to slave. Then install FreeBSD to the first disk. Once > you fix the kernel to see the CD on the secondary controller, you can > install to the second disk. The only problem will be if you don't have > space on the first disk for FreeBSD, and you don't have anything to back > up to. If that's the case, you shouldn't be installing FreeBSD without > your disk(s) backed up anyway. > > An alternate way: > > make some space on your first disk for the files in /bin, > /floppies, /src/ssys.??, /manpages, and /docs. (In the DOS partition) > Then do the install from the dos partition, onto your second drive. This > will only take a few MB of space, and you gotta have at least that, right? > > Ken > > On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Steven Lacomis wrote: > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 from a Walnut Creek CD-ROM. I am > > using an NEC 267 IDE CD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM drive is not recognized > > by the FreeBSD Installation program, however, despite using the > > installation boot disk with IDE CD-ROM support. It is connected as the > > only drive on the secondary EIDE channel. Can I get the CD-ROM > > drive to be recognized? If so, how? I read something about using the > > -c command at the start of the boot: prompt. If that is relevent then > > what do I need to type or do to enter the proper configuration settings? > > > > Help will be much appreciated, > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Steve > > slacomis@erols.com > > I have done a minimal installation of FreeBSD by copying the \dists\bin\ files and \floppies\ files to hard disk C:, and then doing a DOS install but I do not know how to install the other applications (including XFree86) on the CD-ROM through a DOS installation. The only instructions I could find were for a minimal FreeBSD installation from a DOS partition. I tried copying what I could to the DOS partition and doing an install, but that did not work for me. I do not quite have enough disk space to copy the entire contents of the CD-ROM to the C: DOS partition since a partion large enough requires at least 800 MB free space because DOS wastes so much space on 32 KB clusters in partitions of that size. I tried deleting files that I knew I wasn't interested in installing and replacing them with the remaining files from the CD-ROM but apparently the directory structure I used on the DOS partition was not correct for the FreeBSD installation program (i.e. C:\FREEBSD\<dirs>\...\*.*). While I am at it, how do you run X-Windows. I tried to run it on another computer (which, by the way, also has an IDE CD-ROM, but from which I could install FreeBSD) but all I got was a white screen with an X mouse cursor. There were no windows, icons, etc. and I could not quit the program (I had to press reset and allow the kernel to fix everything since I had not unmounted before rebooting). Any extra help is indeed appreciated! Thanks in advance, -- Steve slacomis@erols.com
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