From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 25 08:31:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA26732 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu (geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu [128.186.11.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26715 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:31:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cain@localhost) by geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11694; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:30:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:30:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Cain To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/1877 In-Reply-To: <199610250002.CAA05489@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I looked at the SNAP directory ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-961014-SNAP/ and see over 70 files on /bin, and a few on /floppies, is it one of the latter you are suggesting I try for a test? (boot or boot4?). ________________________________________________________________________ Joseph Cain cain@gfdi.fsu.edu, @leyla.gfdi.fsu.edu, @gly.fsu.edu ,or @scri.fsu.edu (904) 644-4014 (office) FAX (904) 644-8972/0098/4214 (904) 385-0227 (residence) http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/~cain On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Joseph Cain wrote: > > > I am using the Walnut Creek cd rom to install 2.1.0 freeBSD on a > > 532 Mb partition on my Pentium. > > > My cd is a Sony 2-spd/IDE-ATAPI/256ms/256K > > > Is there a possibility that this cd is not supported and there is no > > way for the system to let me know this? > > The support for ATAPI CD-ROMs in FreeBSD 2.1.0 has been fairly > `green'. Do you have any chance to try one of the recent boot > floppies from a 2.2-SNAP version? (I don't think you will be able to > use this floppy to actually install a 2.1 CD-ROM with it, but then you > would know for sure whether this is your problem.) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >