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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:28:26 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Hexo <hexomedine@ifrance.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem installation FreeBSD 4.2 from CDROM
Message-ID:  <20011116162826.F50971@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <00ca01c16e82$73483380$0c02a8c0@jupiter>; from hexomedine@ifrance.com on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:37:48AM %2B0100
References:  <00ca01c16e82$73483380$0c02a8c0@jupiter>

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:37:48AM +0100, Hexo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I encounter a crucial issue when installing FreeBSD 4.2 from CDROM. The CD boots and launchs setup menu, but upon choosing media installation source, a window pops-up with a message telling me that my CDROM is not detected !
> 
> I have a IDE Sony 2x (SONY CDU77E according to Bios) and it does work perfectly under Linux (suse 7.2) and win98. CD should be ok since I used it with several computers before. I did not find any information neither in faq nor in manual nor mailing list archive.
> Could yo help me ?

I haven't heard about people with this problem for years, but is your
CDROM set up as a slave on a controller with no master?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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