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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD-ROM any suggestions? Date: 12 Oct 1996 11:24:01 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 38 Message-ID: <53nv4h$g62@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <325F1781.6147@ixl.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: un1i X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960917] Christopher Davis wrote: CD>I have a TEAC 6x IDE/Atapi cd rom and I have purchased the Walnut Creek CD>FBSD 2.1 distribution. Eveything seems to go fine, it just can't find 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 ? CD>installation. The only reason that I don't know whether the cd is CD>installed or not is that as soon as wdc1 is looked at the screen scrolls CD>at warp 9... I tried the -c by the way, no luck. CD> Thanks! CD> Chris Sorry, I don't know much about cd rom drives - I recompiled my 2.1.0 kernel with the ATAPI cd rom option and it worked perfectly ever since. Before using a cd, you have to mount it - I think it was something like mount -t ISO9660 /dev/wcd0 /cdrom where /cdrom is a normal, empty directory. (I don't recall it exactly, I have an alias for this :-) ). As for the boot messages - on the virtual terminals, you can press "scroll lock" and then scroll back using the cursor up/down keys. The buffer is 100 lines big, I think - not big enough for the complete boot messages, though. The boot messages of the last few boots are also logged in /var/db/log or /var/log or something similar. Root can also view the messages of the last boot with the dmesg command. Bye, Philipp -- -------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- P. Mergenthaler, un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de | Wer halb gebildet, ist der Tel.: 0721/6904-265 (Nach mir fragen) | schoenste Narr. Klosterweg 28 / I609, 76131 Karlsruhe | (Weiss jemand, von wem das ist?) http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/ |