From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 21:25:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44E216A4BF for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.oisca.org (mail.oisca.org [164.46.152.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D42643F75 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:25:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r_ikeda@oisca.org) Received: from lavie (fe239125.ot.FreeBit.NE.JP [219.109.239.125]) by mail.oisca.org (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) with SMTP id h7K4P2509613 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:25:02 +0900 Message-ID: <000f01c366d2$c9bbcfc0$e201a8c0@lavie> From: "Rommel B. Ikeda" To: Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:23:20 +0900 Organization: OISCA-International MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Subject: Installation on LaVie NX - NO CD/DVD found! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Rommel B. Ikeda" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 04:25:04 -0000 I have a been trying to install FreeBSD 5.1 into the old NEC LaVie NX laptop that I got from a friend... The installations goes well until I am given an option to choose my Installation Media - which is my builtin CD-ROM... After selecting this Media - a warning message appears that there is "NO CD/DVD found!", although I have already booted from it... I tried to search the internet and found something that I think is related to my problem...I found it in the freebsdforums.org...It says... "The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured CDROM drive. Many PCs now ship with the CDROM as the slave device on the secondary IDE controller, with no master device on that controller. This is illegal according to the ATAPI specification, but Windows plays fast and loose with the specification, and the BIOS ignores it when booting. This is why the BIOS was able to see the CDROM to boot from it, but why FreeBSD cannot see it to complete the install." Is there anyone who encountered this problem and was able to completely install FreeBSD...of course aside from trying to install it using ftp or http... Thanks for any ideas from anyone... Rommel B. Ikeda