Installation problems

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On 9/28/07, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote:
> 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.

OK, thanks.

I'll post this message there.

Cheers

>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Josh Paetzel
>
>