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From: francost@styx.ios.com (Eric Colombel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with a _supported_ CD-ROM...
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 15:23:32 GMT
Organization: Francosteel Corp.
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On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 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
>
I just wanted to say thanks for your help and post the answer to my
question to anyone else who may have similar problems. This worked as
promised and I am now happily choosing from the 300+ programs to
install!!
Thanks again to everybody who replied to my post. Your help keeps
people interested and adds to the population!
-Dave
The Lord of Chaos
a.k.a.
David Michael Fogarty