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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:53:33 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Kevin lu <kevinlui_hk@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't read CD Rom
Message-ID:  <3A65DC1D.9862DC22@i-clue.de>
References:  <20010117051412.63314.qmail@web11608.mail.yahoo.com>

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Kevin lu schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a newbie in FreeBSD and I try to install FreeBSD
> 3.4 on my AcerPower 6500 with ATAPi cd-rom, but
> failed.
> 
> I managed to boot it from the CD-Rom and the
> /stand/sysinstall started correctly but when I reached
> the state of choosing installaion medium, it just say
> that
> 
> There is no CD-rom found!
> 
> however, I managed to install it from dos slice but I
> still can read from the cd-rom,  Could anyone tell me
> how can i access the cd-rom?

For some reason, FreeBSD dislikes CD-ROMs jumpered as slave on a
masterless IDE port. Check if your CD-ROM drive shares its cable with
another device. If not, it has to be jumpered as master.

HTH
-Christoph Sold


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