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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with a _supported_ CD-ROM... Date: 4 Jan 1996 20:33:37 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4chdj1$4jq@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4ch0dq$qi5@news.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4ch0dq$qi5@news.ios.com>, <df4889@atlas.ccm.edu> wrote: >I ran the batch file from the CD under dos which the instructions >suggest if at all possible. Everything seemed to work fine and I got >messages much like those under Linux confirming my hardware addresses, >etc. It even found my CD-ROM to be a FX001 Mitsumi attached at >0x340, IRQ 11. All this is correct and is the same for Linux and >DOS/Windows. Here's the catch... When I set up the hardrives, >everything goes great until I tell it to install it from a CD-ROM. >Then it tells me I don't have a valid CD-ROM device. Is it being probed as mcd0 or mcd1? I seem to remember leaving the device files for /dev/mcd1a off the boot floppy due to a critical inode shortage, in which case you'll definitely want this to probe as mcd0 instead for the install (for the actual *runtime* of the OS this wouldn't matter, but for the installation the CD you're using it kinda has to be `cd0'). Fortunately, this is very easy. Boot with -c again (remember to do all of the following twice - once at floppy boot time, and again when it boots off the hard disk) and do this: config> irq mcd0 11 config> port mcd0 0x340 config> disable mcd1 config> quit After this, you'll not need to do anything more. Typing `mount /cdrom' (as root) whenever you bring your system up will mount whichever CD is in the drive. Jordan