From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 11:58:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E8A37B424 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark8 (hutch-277.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.205]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA12021; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:58:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <003a01c0105a$05df5f80$cd430ace@mark8> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Scott Johnson" , "evelio" , References: <20000826215050.A290037B43E@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: On install Cdrom won't mount Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:07:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Johnson" To: "evelio" ; Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 6:50 PM Subject: Re: On install Cdrom won't mount > On 25 Aug 00, at 17:50, evelio wrote: > > I just recently bought FreeBSD 4.0. I am using a Packard Bell, Axcel 3520 > > with 16 ram and 100 mhz ( Intel Pentium )I can boot up from the CDROM > > without a problem > > > > However during the install of FreeBSD towards the end when I need the > > CDROM to copy files it does not find the CDROM. > > > > The only thing I can tell you about the CDROM is that it is quad speed. > > I don't know what model of drive you have, but I have a couple of 4x IDE cdroms out of old packard-bells, and they don't seem to be 100% compatable with the "IDE standard CDROM" (whatever that may be!) > > Is there some configuration I need to do or should I get a newer CDROM. > Get a newer cdrom. Life's too short to have a 4x! > I've had this problem with my much newer Iomega ZipCD 650 CDR, > both while installing and otherwise. It seems that if the drive spins > down while mounted, and I try to access it later, it will hang up. I > still have installed from it by doing the install in two runs -- making > a slice and a disklabel, quitting the install, starting over again and > this time assigning mount points to the partitions I already made, > then rushing through the rest of the install to get to transfering the > packages before the drive spins down. Usually the time saved is by > already having partitioned the disk is just enough. > That is absolutely bizarre....my cdrom spins down all the time, and it has never hung the machine. Perhaps you should get a new cdrom as well! :) Josh > Scott > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message