Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 13:12:40 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3 iso installation image issues Message-ID: <20010708131239.B115245@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010708142925.L80257-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>; from "Joe Clarke" on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:31:01PM References: <20010708054455.A245319@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> <20010708142925.L80257-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:31:01PM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote: > Could be a problem with the changer. I have never used a CD changer with > FreeBSD. All my machines with ATAPI CD-ROMs mount without a problem. Do > you have another machine that you can mount the CD, and use either dd > (UNIX) or fdimage (DOS/Windows) to write out the boot floppies? If so, > you have find 4.2 has better support for your changer. > > Joe Clarke The CD changer works great on my win95 box. The HDD that has my current 3.3R used to be on a secondary controller in my win95 box along with the CD changer. There it mounted OK. I move the 3.3R HDD to another 486 as a slave drive on 'wdc0'. I use 'Uniload' to dual boot DOS or 3.3R - no probs and /var/run/dmseg.boot is clean. I can dink around and switch out the CD changer to the other box, but it would probably be easier if I just go to a mirror and scoop the 2 images. Did you see anything wrong in the /var/run/dmseg.boot that I paraphrased in my last message? Nothing jumped out at me -- then again I often can't see the forest for the trees. ;^) Thanks for your input! L8r... > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Duke Normandin wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:16:35AM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote: > > > El Torrito, if memory serves me, is a chain of Mexican restaurants. The > > > El Torrito boot extensions for CDs were thought up there (or just named > > > after it). El Torrito isn't a CD format per se. They're extensions for > > > making a ISO-9660 CD bootable. > > > > Ok, thanks! Now I know.... > > > > > That said, you may have a problem booting off of CD on a 486. You should > > > be able to mount the CD with a command like: > > > > > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom > > > > > > Just replace acd0c with whatever your CD device is. If you have an entry > > > in /etc/fstab, you could also just do "mount /cdrom" (or whatever your CD > > > mountpoint is). After that, you could dd the floppy images to floppies, > > > and boot that way. > > > > Paraphrasing /var/run/dmesg.boot I have: > > > > wdc1 -> HDD Controller #2 > > |___ acd0 NEC (ATAPI) CD-ROM drive slot0 > > |___ acd1 slot1 > > |___ acd2 slot2 > > |___ acd3 slot3 > > > > Paraphrasing /etc/fstab I have: > > > > /dev/acd0c -> /cdrom > > /dev/acd1c -> /cdrom1 > > /dev/acd2c -> /cdrom2 > > /dev/acd3c -> /cdrom3 > > > > Yet when I did a 'mount /cdrom' the system went into a coma ;) I couldn't > > get nothing out of the keyboard. I tried ^C; ^D; ^Z and anything else > > that I could think of, but to no avail. I had to turn the power off -- > > yuk! BTW, /dev does have the above devices. So I thought it was because > > of the El Torrito thing ;) Any ideas? TIA... > > -- > > -duke > > Calgary, Alberta, Canada > -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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