3.4 Installation woes

rdls rdls at rdls.net
Thu Feb 24 23:02:15 GMT 2000


Neil Ford wrote:
> 
> This is probably blindingly obvious but I thought I'd ask just in case...
> 
> I'm trying to install 3.4 from CD on my workstation at home but I'm hitting
> a problem.
> 
> The machine is configured as follows;
> 
> Primary IDE
>   Master: 6Gb HD (currently with 2Gb Windows partition and 4Gb Extended
> partition)
>   Slave:  6Gb HD (currently with RedHat 6.1 using the whole disk)
> Secondary IDE
>   Master: Goldstar 32x CD drive
> 
> The plan is to replace RH 6.1 letting FreeBSD have the whole second disk.
> Boot management is handled by BootMagic.
> 
> Everything is recognised okay by the BIOS and the CD boots fine.

As a matter of morbid curiosity, does FreeBSD detect the CD drive. At
the sysinstall screen, it's possible to scroll-lock and wind back to
read the dmesg output. You should see a wdc1 controller detection
(secondary IDE) followed by an acd0 detection (the ATAPI CD-ROM drive).

 
> Install routine seems to go okay, I can select the second drive, setup the
> partition and the filesystems, however when I come to select the
> installation media it barfs saying it can't find a CD drive!  I've had
> FreeBSD on this machine before the only change has been the addition of the
> second drive.
> 
> I could possibly get round this by mounting the relevent CD (cd2?) on one of
> the servers in the house and doing an FTP install but I'd rather get to the
> bottom of this.

You need to mount CD1 with a correctly named mount point. Something like
../../3.4-RELEASE/<cdrom1> 
After that, ftp install is trivial.

Richard.





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