Subject: Re: Install Help
To: Stephen Chung <stephen_chung@concorde-realty.com.sg>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/03/2001 20:57:28
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:20:45AM +0800, Stephen Chung wrote:
> I got this GPL cdrom from linux central. Everything goes well until the 
> system try to install the packages.
> It fails to read from the cd rom drive. So, I do try to do a ftp install, 
> it did downland the tgz and unpack them and then
> what do I do next?

Can you check from the boot message that the kernel detects a 'cd0' device ?
If you don't have time to check it, you can get the boot messages from a shell
prompt with 'dmesg |more' or 'more /kern/msgbuf' (don't worry about
the '@' chars at the beggining).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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