Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:56:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: grl@marconi.ih.lucent.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot mount CDROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960712205230.647E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9607121609.AA15446@toolman.ih.lucent.com>
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On Fri, 12 Jul 1996 grl@marconi.ih.lucent.com wrote: > - Can I install from CDROM? I sure hope so :-) That is the absolute best way to go if your CD is supported. > I'm tring to install FreeBSD 2.1 (from CD ROM) to an > HP Vectra with an IDE drive (Western Digital 1.6G). > I picked up the 2.2-960612-SNAP Boot floppy from the FTP > site and noticed that it does recognize my CDROM on boot. Cool! You're in luck. > The Hard Drive and CDROM are on separate controllers. > I never see the CDROM light come on (FreeBSD is in the drive) > and the boot says "media unknown." That's OK, there's no CD in there. > Install allows me to select CDROM media without complaints but > when it tries to access it, the mount fails: > > Error mounting /dev/wcd0c on /cdrom - Input/Output error (5) Hm, because there isn't any CD in the drive on boot. > - Matrox and FreeBSD? > I have a Matrox Millenium video card and understand it is not > supported by FreeBSD. Also heard that I can use X-Inside with > FreeBSD and this card to run X-applications. Is this correct? > I'll be using it to display X-applications on the PC at home > from the UNIX-Sun systems at work (via 28.8 modem/PPP for now). The Matrox works great. FreeBSD supports any standard video card with a text mode. :-) Now Xwindows, on the other hand, doesn't. Rather, XFree86 does not. XInside, Inc, as you mentioned, DOES have a server for this card. You'll have to buy that one but it's an excellent package, so I hear. X over modem will not be fun. :( Let's say it's not as snappy as your local display. It will work. You might try to find the low-bandwidth servers (?) and see if you can get them to interface to your Sun. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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