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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Installing from Adaptec 1510 & NEC84 problem
Date: 13 Mar 1995 11:06:09 +0100
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David K. Merriman <merriman@metronet.com> wrote:
>I've gotten FreeBSD 2.0 installed from floppies, but don't yet have the\
bindist installed. The problem I'm running
>into is that the installation program is looking for CD0, and my bootlog\
shows that the CDROM is on AIC0 (an
>NEC 84j hanging off an Adaptec 1510).
>
>How do I let the installation routine know where to find the CDROM, so I\
can install off it, rather than having to
>put all that stuff on floppies?
You normally don't need to tell anything. The default for FreeBSD is
to have `unwired' SCSI devices, i.e. the subunit numbers are
`floating' and will be assigned as the devices are being probed. So
if you only have one SCSI CD-ROM, it will always become cd0. (FreeBSD
2.1 will also support `wired' devices, as an option.)
Is your SCSI adapter probed succesfully? Did it also find the cd0
there? Perhaps you can show the relevant parts from the device probe
messages here.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)