From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 21:26: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D589637B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granite.impoffice.ac.th ([203.151.134.100]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA04909; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:21:04 +0700 (GMT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000901112815.0086ddb0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Sender: mcrogerm@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:28:15 +0700 To: mgworst@rainet.com (Mike Worst) From: Roger Merritt Subject: Re: Install problem with CD-ROM Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <00083120070011509@rainet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message