On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, 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.

You have to mount the drive first. (This isn't RedHat!) E.g:

  mkdir /cd
  mount -t iso9660 /dev/cd0a /cd

I find it convenient to add a line to /etc/fstab like

/dev/cd0a	/cd	iso9660	ro,noauto

so I can do "mount /cd", "umount /cd", and so on. Also try "eject cd".

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Frederick