Installation problems

[Josh Paetzel]

Fernando Apestegua wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is my very first post in this list, so I beg for your patience :)
> 
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on an IBM Netfinity 5000. I have the
> two CD's set.
> The machine uses a IDE DVD drive, and 5 SCSI disks.
> 
> I boot the machine and the CD starts to boot. I select the FreeBSD
> normal booting. Everything seems to be fine. I can see the messages
> about the detected devices (BIOS CDROM is cd0 and so on...)
> 
> I start the installation, The disks are detected, I set up my
> partitions and then I select the CD/DVD media installation... and then
> I get a No CD/DVD drive is present.
> 
> The drive is working in terms of hardware (I can run several live CD
> linux distros for example) and then access the CD as usual. How is it
> possible that after booting with FreeBSD the sysinstall (?) program
> doesn't detect the cd?
> 
> Thanks in advance

freebsd-questions@ is a better list for this, but the long and short
of it is the system's BIOS has boot support for the cdrom, but FreeBSD
for whatever reason doesn't have a driver for either the CDROM drive,
or more likely, the IDE controller itself.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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