5.2-BETA from USB CD-ROM

[Dan Pelleg]

Bernd Walter writes:
 > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:43:56PM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote:
 > > Bernd Walter writes:
 > >  > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:54:57PM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > I grabbed the miniinst 5.2 ISO, and tried to install it on an IBM thinkpad
 > >  > > X23 via an IBM USB CD-ROM (the machine has no internal floppy or CD). It
 > >  > > boots fine, and I can proceed with the installation up to the point where
 > >  > > it newfs-es the filesystems. Then it stops, saying "can't mount /dev/cd0 on
 > >  > > /dist: device not configured (6)"
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Any ideas? Requests for more debug info?
 > >  > 
 > >  > Sounds like the kernel doesn't know about your drive.
 > >  > Up to that stage it's all BIOS access.
 > >  > I don't know how good USB support from install evironment is - maybe
 > >  > you have to start it manually or you need some quirks.
 > >  > Boot messages about USB are welcome.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Another option would be to do the remaining part of the installation
 > >  > from network and think about the drive after you've installed the
 > >  > OS - it'll make things much easier.
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > I can probably install this over the network. However I'd still like to
 > > document the details of this failure here.
 > 
 > But your problem is not installing with this drive, it's getting it
 > running at all under FreeBSD.
 > It's an atapi drive and I think thats the problem, because I doubt that
 > umass atapi drives have been tested widely - all usb cd drives I had in
 > my fingers were scsi ones.
 > 

That's probably the case. Once I installed (over FTP), the new system
wasn't able to access the drive (even though GEOM reported that it created
cd0).