3.4 Installation woes

[Mark Ovens]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:22:41PM -0000, 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.
> 
> 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.
> 

The only suggestion I can make is to try with the 2nd HD as the
secondary master and the CD-ROM slaved to it.


> 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.
> 
> All advice, assistance and pointers gratefully received.  Suitable liquid
> refreshment as the next get-together I make as way of thanks will of course
> be forthcoming (we just need to try and avoid mid-week nights :-( ).
> 
> Neil.
> --
> neil at binky.demon.co.uk
> 
> 
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