On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:

> I boot from the NetBSD 1.5 (i386) standard boot floppies and everything goes
> fine--partition setup, etc.  However, then I get ready to install the
> packages.  Unfortunately, I cannot determine the correct device name for my
> CD-ROM drive.  I have tried cd0 and cd0a-d none seem to work.  It is a

How did you try?

What messages did it return?

> standard (although somewhat old) ATAPI CD-ROM drive, set up as my secondary
> slave IDE device.

Look at the dmesg output to see what it says about it.

 grep -i cd /var/run/dmesg.boot

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