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Date:      Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:28:15 +0700
From:      Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
To:        mgworst@rainet.com (Mike Worst)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install problem with CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000901112815.0086ddb0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <00083120070011509@rainet.com>

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At 03:05 AM 9/1/00 GMT, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I've been trying to install FreeBSD 4.1 on a 20 gig Fujitsu with a
>Microsoft partition totaling 900 meg.  My computer has an AMD K6-2 266
>with 64 meg of RAM.
>
>The boot CD-ROM runs OK, and everything seems to be running right, but
>when I try to start the installation, sysinstall says "No CD-ROM device
>found".
>
>The CD-ROM is a Teac CD-512E with an IDE/ATAPI Inrerface.  It's
>installed as a secondary master.
>
>The data transfer rate is 1,800 KB/sec sustained, 16.6 MB/sec burst.
>Access time is 160 msec, and the data buffer capacity is 128 KB.
>
>I would be very appreciative if you can help me with this.
>
>Regards,
>Michael G. Worst  mgworst@rainet.com
>
>
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That sounds familiar. When you are configuring devices at the beginning
of the installation process, you may be deleting the device for the
cd-rom. After the kernel is configured it's no longer able to see the
device, even though that's what you booted up from.
-- 
Roger



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