Subject: Re: newbie CD install of netbsd 1.5 on i386
To: tester 777 <tester707@hotmail.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/06/2001 15:51:24
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:55:33AM -0000, tester 777 wrote:
> i'm attempting CD install of netbsd 1.5 on i386 platform
> everything runs fine in sysinstall until i get to package installation
> i select CDROM as the source, but when prompted for the location of the 
> binaries, sysinstall does not seem to recognize "cd0" as my cd drive.
> 
> i've tried setting device to cd0a, cd0a1, cd1, cd1a, etc.  none of those 
> points sysinstall to the cddrive.  i looked through /kern/msgbuf  there's no 
> "cd" string in there of anykind. is this normal?  the drive must be detected 
> because all of this is booting from cd.

Is it an IDE or SCSI drive ?
What controller do you have ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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