Re: booting a CD-ROM

2012-04-03 Thread Michael Powell
stem by booting with a CD-ROM which started going and > gave me the following messages: > boot from ATAPI CD-ROM > CD Loader 1.2 > Building the boot loader arguments > Relocating the loader and the BTX > The system

Re: booting a CD-ROM

2012-04-03 Thread Xavier FreeBSD questions
I tried getting onto that system by booting with a CD-ROM which started going and gave me the following messages: > > boot from ATAPI CD-ROM > > CD Loader 1.2 > > Building the boot loader arguments > > Relocating the loader

Re: booting a CD-ROM

2012-04-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I have an old FreeBSD system that I haven't used for a long time and > I have forgotten the passwords. This machine has FreeBSD-4.3 and > FreeBSD-4.7 > on it, and also MS' Windows98 . I tried getting onto that system by > booting with a CD-ROM which

booting a CD-ROM

2012-04-03 Thread gs_stol...@juno.com
I have an old FreeBSD system that I haven't used for a long time and I have forgotten the passwords. This machine has FreeBSD-4.3 and FreeBSD-4.7 on it, and also MS' Windows98 . I tried getting onto that system by booting with a CD-ROM which started going and g

Converting a bootable USB stick in to bootable CD-ROM

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Steele
a similar mechanism using a bootable CD-ROM. The biggest difference in the process of course is that the CD-ROM itself is read-only so clearly there needs to be an mfsroot involved in the process. I looked at how the FreeBSD Live CD is setup and the loader.conf file has these lines: mfsroot

Re: How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On Friday 27 February 2009 08:06:04 SERGIO RODRIGO DE CAMARGO PAULI wrote: How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD? /usr/ports/sysutils/eject/ ? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD

2009-02-27 Thread Mel
On Friday 27 February 2009 08:06:04 SERGIO RODRIGO DE CAMARGO PAULI wrote: > How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD? cdcontrol eject if atapicd(4) camcontrol eject cd# if atapicam(4) -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and neve

Re: How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD

2009-02-27 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:06:04PM -0300, SERGIO RODRIGO DE CAMARGO PAULI wrote: > man cdcontrol HTH, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre

How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD

2009-02-27 Thread SERGIO RODRIGO DE CAMARGO PAULI
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known problem about SATA CD-ROM

2008-07-10 Thread Alexander Bubnov
Hi, I have the same problem as describe here http://arkiv.freebsd.se/?ml=freebsd-proliant&a=2008-03&t=6875944 shortly: acd0: DVDR SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (1 retry left) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (0 retries left) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out acd0

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-13 Thread Bjoern Koenig
J. Porter Clark wrote: > I don't have a way to make such an image without using mkisofs. > Figuring out how to pack the nanobsd image in such a way that > mkisofs can make an "El Torito" bootable CD from it sounds > difficult, offhand. Anybody know how to do this sort of thing? > Is it even possi

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Then make an ISO of the mounted nanobsd image >> >> mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b /boot/cdboot \ >> -iso-level 3 -o nanobsd.iso /mnt/image > > i don't know if -J is needed (rather not), and -iso-level 3 too, but it > is OK. True, I just grabbed a command line I've used i

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Then make an ISO of the mounted nanobsd image mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b /boot/cdboot \ -iso-level 3 -o nanobsd.iso /mnt/image i don't know if -J is needed (rather not), and -iso-level 3 too, but it is OK. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
rote: >> |> J. Porter Clark wrote: >> |> | Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? >> |> | If so, how? >> |> >> |> Yes, Section 2.2 of >> |> >> |> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html >>

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-13 Thread J. Porter Clark
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 06:54:45PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > > J. Porter Clark wrote: > | On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:40:25PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > |> J. Porter Clark wrote: > |> | Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? > |&g

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-12 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 J. Porter Clark wrote: | On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:40:25PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: |> J. Porter Clark wrote: |> | Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? |> | If so, how? |> |> Yes, Section 2.

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-12 Thread J. Porter Clark
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:40:25PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > J. Porter Clark wrote: > | Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? > | If so, how? > > Yes, Section 2.2 of > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html Well, no,

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-12 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 J. Porter Clark wrote: | Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? | If so, how? | Yes, Section 2.2 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http

Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-11 Thread J. Porter Clark
Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? If so, how? -- J. Porter Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: Mounting USB CD-ROM manually, after boot

2008-05-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The device shows up with a label, and appears as /dev/cd0 (in dmesg). # mount /dev/cd0 /cdrom ...fails, with a: mount: /dev/cd0 : Invalid Argument mount_cd9660 I have nothing else in /dev that would indicate any new device was attached. I know for fact the .iso is burned correctly, becaus

Re: Mounting USB CD-ROM manually, after boot

2008-05-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
mount: /dev/cd0 : Invalid Argument Can anyone shed some quick light onto the solution that I am likely purely overlooking? Try this: mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt Thank you for the very quick reply. The above command that David stated worked immediately. Thanks everyone, Steve __

Re: Mounting USB CD-ROM manually, after boot

2008-05-07 Thread David M. Patronis
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, To get right to the chase, FBSD 7.0, I plug in an external USB CD-ROM device with a CD (of FreeBSD 7.0) and I want to mount it manually into the filesystem. The device shows up with a label, and appears as /dev/cd0 (in dmesg). # mount /dev/cd0 /cdrom

Mounting USB CD-ROM manually, after boot

2008-05-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, To get right to the chase, FBSD 7.0, I plug in an external USB CD-ROM device with a CD (of FreeBSD 7.0) and I want to mount it manually into the filesystem. The device shows up with a label, and appears as /dev/cd0 (in dmesg). # mount /dev/cd0 /cdrom ...fails, with a: mount

Re: Making a mounted ISO image of a CD-ROM writable

2007-07-13 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 10:53 PM +0200 7/12/07, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:38:10PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> Greetings again. I want to make an ISO image of the FreeBSD >>> distribution >>> with a boot.config file that contains "/boot/loader -h". I have the ISO >>> i

Re: Making a mounted ISO image of a CD-ROM writable

2007-07-12 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 10:53 PM +0200 7/12/07, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:38:10PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. I want to make an ISO image of the FreeBSD distribution with a boot.config file that contains "/boot/loader -h". I have the ISO image as a file on my hard drive, and h

Re: Making a mounted ISO image of a CD-ROM writable

2007-07-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:38:10PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I want to make an ISO image of the FreeBSD distribution > with a boot.config file that contains "/boot/loader -h". I have the ISO > image as a file on my hard drive, and have mounted it on /mnt: > > mdconfig -a -t v

Making a mounted ISO image of a CD-ROM writable

2007-07-12 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. I want to make an ISO image of the FreeBSD distribution with a boot.config file that contains "/boot/loader -h". I have the ISO image as a file on my hard drive, and have mounted it on /mnt: mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/my/bootable.iso -u 0 mount -w -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ?

2007-01-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
t; wrote: Dear FreeBSD Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ? I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be very much appreciated. I'll download everything and put it on a CD

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ?

2006-07-29 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
ftp > server: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE > ? > I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any > help would be very > much appreciated. > I'll download everything and put it on a CD and burn &g

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server:

2006-07-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 29 July 2006 16:04, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I don't know Nero so I don't know what choices it offers. > But, generally you just want a plain burn plus fixate. > in nero, there is one of the upper drop down menus thats has "burn image". that is the only thing one needs to do to s

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server:

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jul 29, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Dear FreeBSD Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ? I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be very much apprec

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server:

2006-07-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Dear FreeBSD > Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp > server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ? > I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be very > much appreciated. > I'll down

Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ?

2006-07-29 Thread Stojance
Dear FreeBSD Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ? I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be very much appreciated. I'll download everything and put it on a CD a

cd-rom on the vaio pcg-r505gl

2006-06-14 Thread Kim West
I am trying to do a clean install and what happens is when I put cd in the cdrom it starts to boot up then states there is no valid cdrom. please help Go Mariners ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: building a CD-ROM boot disk

2006-02-02 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:27, Rick Hubbard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm kind of new to this and was wondering if I can download FreeBSD from > the website and build a CD-ROM boot disk from the file? I would like to > learn how to do this myself. I would like to install F

building a CD-ROM boot disk

2006-02-02 Thread Rick Hubbard
Hi, I'm kind of new to this and was wondering if I can download FreeBSD from the website and build a CD-ROM boot disk from the file? I would like to learn how to do this myself. I would like to install FreeBSD on an old IMB laptop (Pentium, 48 MB ram) Any help would be greatly apprec

Re: Problem burning/mounting cd-rom

2006-01-06 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:18:34PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > Leonidas Tsampros wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:05:23PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > > > > > >>Leonidas Tsampros wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>

Re: Problem burning/mounting cd-rom

2006-01-05 Thread Frank Staals
Leonidas Tsampros wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:05:23PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: Leonidas Tsampros wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: Hey, I have an Acer Aspire 1356 LCi laptop with a CD-RW/DVD-drive in it so I can burn cds and read

Re: Problem burning/mounting cd-rom

2006-01-05 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:05:23PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > Leonidas Tsampros wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > > > > > >>Hey, > >> > >>I have an Acer Aspire 1356 LCi laptop with a CD-RW/DVD-drive in it so I > >>can burn cds and read DVD's and cd's.

Re: Problem burning/mounting cd-rom

2006-01-05 Thread Frank Staals
Leonidas Tsampros wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: Hey, I have an Acer Aspire 1356 LCi laptop with a CD-RW/DVD-drive in it so I can burn cds and read DVD's and cd's. But when I tried to burn and mount a datadisk this happend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkisofs

Re: Problem burning/mounting cd-rom

2006-01-05 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > Hey, > > I have an Acer Aspire 1356 LCi laptop with a CD-RW/DVD-drive in it so I > can burn cds and read DVD's and cd's. But when I tried to burn and mount > a datadisk this happend: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkisofs -o tmp1.iso Virtua

Problem burning/mounting cd-rom

2006-01-05 Thread Frank Staals
Hey, I have an Acer Aspire 1356 LCi laptop with a CD-RW/DVD-drive in it so I can burn cds and read DVD's and cd's. But when I tried to burn and mount a datadisk this happend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkisofs -o tmp1.iso VirtualDub-1.6.11.zip totaal.wmv 24.61% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 5 13:37:1

Re: can't install 5.4, won't recognize SCSI CD Rom

2005-10-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD with a CD Rom disc. I have a SCSI CD Rom player. It's not possible to configure my system to search for the boot record from CD Rom. Instead, I've been trying to start from the installation floppies, then have

can't install 5.4, won't recognize SCSI CD Rom

2005-10-02 Thread jacobsanders
Hi, Thanks in advance for any help of advice you might have: I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD with a CD Rom disc. I have a SCSI CD Rom player. It's not possible to configure my system to search for the boot record from CD Rom. Instead, I've been trying to start from t

Re: My CD Writers are detected as CD-ROM

2005-09-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 19 September 2005 at 18:15:59 -0400, John Do wrote: > Anyone know how to fix this? No, not if you don't say what your problem is. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For mo

My CD Writers are detected as CD-ROM

2005-09-19 Thread John Do
Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks! __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > : You should be able to fixate the disk and still add more sessions > : later, shouldn't you? It will waste a little space, but not horrible > : amounts... > > I can give this a sh

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM : > with sessions. : > : > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-quest

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM > with sessions. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html > > My question is how can I access th

Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-16 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM with sessions. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html My question is how can I access the data on the CD between backups without having to run fixate? It obviously

Re: Aspire 1300 [slim-line cd-rom issue?]

2005-06-30 Thread JM
talled freebsd on my EPIA system FreeBSD hated it. the system was basically built like a laptop with a slimline cd-rom and a 2.5" hard drive. FreeBSD would not recognize UDMA on the cd-rom and would constantly timeout (or hang) the installation when installing from cd. i basically had to b

Re: cd-rom sysinstall fixit utility

2005-04-18 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:05:53PM -0400, Darrel wrote: > Is there actually a way to change the shell of root while logged in with > the fixit utility on the cd-rom? boot from the fixit cd/floppy, mount your root partition (e.g. /dev/ad0s1a), edit /etc/passwd and change the shell to som

Re: cd-rom sysinstall fixit utility

2005-04-18 Thread Ed Stover
hile logged in with > the fixit utility on the cd-rom? Just boot into single user mode, mount root, use vipw to fix the path, and then reboot. done. > > Darrel > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.

cd-rom sysinstall fixit utility

2005-04-18 Thread Darrel
Having mistyped changes with the 'pw' command, giving my User and Root a bad path to their shells might required a new installation. I can not log in at all. Is there actually a way to change the shell of root while logged in with the fixit utility on the cd-r

Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Carmody
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Original Message- From: ygb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive I have notebook IP-120MHz, without FDD How can i install FreeBSD on in? It has

Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Original Message- From: ygb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive I have notebook IP-120MHz, without FDD He is not boot from CD. It is very old. How can i install

RE: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread Hauan David A
Original Message- From: ygb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive I have notebook IP-120MHz, without FDD He is not boot from CD. It is very old. How can i install

Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: > Hello stheg, > > > Hardvare configuration: > > Intel Pentium 120MHz > 80Mb RAM (!) > 4,3 Gb HDD Hitachi > CD-ROM -8x Panasonic (I CAN NOT boot from it) > > NO LAN, NO FDD, 2,5"-HDD - I can't connect this HDD > to desktop and

Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said by Kevin Kinsey: > Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > >stheg olloydson writes: > > > > > >>Because you don't have a floppy drive, Mr. Atkielski's suggestion > will > >>not work. The link he gave you is a good one. Skip section 2.2.7 > and > >>read section 2.13 instead. It explains how to

Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Anthony Atkielski wrote: stheg olloydson writes: Because you don't have a floppy drive, Mr. Atkielski's suggestion will not work. The link he gave you is a good one. Skip section 2.2.7 and read section 2.13 instead. It explains how to install if you do not have a floppy drive. If you have n

Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Atkielski
stheg olloydson writes: > Because you don't have a floppy drive, Mr. Atkielski's suggestion will > not work. The link he gave you is a good one. Skip section 2.2.7 and > read section 2.13 instead. It explains how to install if you do not > have a floppy drive. If you have neither a CD drive or a

Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said by Anthony Atkielski > >ygb writes: > >> I have notebook IP-120MHz, without FDD >> He is not boot from CD. It is very old. >> >> How can i install FreeBSD on in? > >Create a boot floppy. You can then boot from the floppy and install >from the CD. > >A fully procedure for doing this may

Re: Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Atkielski
ygb writes: > I have notebook IP-120MHz, without FDD > He is not boot from CD. It is very old. > > How can i install FreeBSD on in? Create a boot floppy. You can then boot from the floppy and install from the CD. A fully procedure for doing this may be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en

Install Free BSD without floppy and bootable CD-ROM-drive

2005-02-24 Thread ygb
I have notebook IP-120MHz, without FDD He is not boot from CD. It is very old. How can i install FreeBSD on in? It has Windows partition I see utilit setup.exe in the list of files in /tools, but has NOT found it. Help me, please! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Sorry for my English. _

Creating your own FreeBSD install CD-ROM

2005-01-15 Thread David Landgren
List, how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install process done automatically. For instance, what parts of FreeBSD to install: X or not, games or not, etc. etc. And which ports to install str

Re: USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-12 Thread John Wilson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:34:32 -0500 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I've gotten the impression that USB2 under FreeBSD 5.3 will support 4x well > and be OK at 8x DVD burning speeds, although I've seen some reports of > problems (failing every third or forth burn) at high speeds, to

Re: USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
John Wilson wrote: [ ... ] Since the -STABLE EHCI, or USB2.0, support is not fully implemented yet, as I understand it and in so far as supporting full speed operation, will this pose any problems burning DVD +R or -R media? I've never had a DVD burner before, so I am somewhat new to this hardware

USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-11 Thread John Wilson
ue to begin with, but I vaguely recall hearing about problems during the installation of FreeBSD from a USB CD-ROM; something akin to the install halting at some point and thus a faulure to install at all. Unfortunately, after google'ing about, I am unable to find anything in regard to this.

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-22 Thread ANISH MISTRY
- Original Message - From: Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:26 am Subject: Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i? > * Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 21:10]: wrote: > > On Thursday 11 November 200

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-11 Thread Anish Mistry
On Thursday 11 November 2004 11:45 am, you wrote: > * Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041110 03:21]: wrote: > > [snip] > > Hey Anish, > > Thank you so much for your script. > > I am not quite a newbie on Unix, but your script has gotten me lost, > such that I feel like a newbie ;) > > Could you

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-09 Thread Anish Mistry
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 06:49 pm, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > Now instead of the above, I would like to pipe the output > > to be written to a CD-ROM mounted on the same box. I am > > hoping burncd or some other app c

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Now instead of the above, I would like to pipe the output to be written to a CD-ROM mounted on the same box. I am hoping burncd or some other app can be used to do that: tar czf - / | burncd -arg1 arg2 blah... tar czf - / | burncd -e -smax data

Re: 5.3 Release CD ROM Time out Issues

2004-11-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a fresh install of 5.3 Release my dvd burner drive conitunes to > timeout and yes the drive is set as slave...heres my dmesg > > acd0: DVDROM at ata1-master UDMA33 > acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > acd1: FAILURE - MODE_SENSE_BIG timed

Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-09 Thread Odhiambo Washington
tgz' Now instead of the above, I would like to pipe the output to be written to a CD-ROM mounted on the same box. I am hoping burncd or some other app can be used to do that: tar czf - / | burncd -arg1 arg2 blah... So every night I just mount a blank CD and let a cron job do the backup;) I know

5.3 Release CD ROM Time out Issues

2004-11-06 Thread admin
I have a fresh install of 5.3 Release my dvd burner drive conitunes to timeout and yes the drive is set as slave...heres my dmesg acd0: DVDROM at ata1-master UDMA33 acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device acd1: FAILURE - MODE_SENSE_BIG timed out acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-AT

Sysinstall failing to install from CD-ROM

2004-05-25 Thread putnam
I was trying to use sysintall to install additional packages. When specifying the FreeBSD CD as the source, I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/Output Error (5) Whenever I cat /dev/acd0 or try to mount the device to /cdrom I get the same error. What

cd rom probs

2004-05-18 Thread putnam
I have been having trouble using my cd rom The measage I recieve is cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/Output error I took some advice I recieved here and rebuilt the kernal I thought that maybe the problem was that the Delta Cdrom was reporting to the OS so I added the line SCSI_REPORT_GEOMETREY but

Re: cd-rom drive on parallel port

2004-04-12 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:02:03 +0200 Marc "UBM" Bocklet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I'm posting this one last time in the hope that somebody can at > least tell me: "No, it does not work" :-) > > -- > > Hiho! :-) > > I've an old 8x cdrom that gets connected to a parall

cd-rom drive on parallel port

2004-04-12 Thread UBM
Ok, I'm posting this one last time in the hope that somebody can at least tell me: "No, it does not work" :-) -- Hiho! :-) I've an old 8x cdrom that gets connected to a parallel port. It's working under DOS 6.2 with a special driver but there is no sign of it in the dmesg or

Re: ATAPI CD-ROM, UNIX"NEW GUY"

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:42:34AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed bsd on an a pentium II machine and using the cd-rom. >> As of now it is no longer working properly I cannot finnish installing > all of the cd's I purchasd. The cd-rom is 40x Delta "I thin

Re: ATAPI CD-ROM, UNIX"NEW GUY"

2004-04-06 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:42:34AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed bsd on an a pentium II machine and using the cd-rom. > As of now it is no longer working properly I cannot finnish installing > all of the cd's I purchasd. The cd-rom is 40x Delta "I think&q

ATAPI CD-ROM, UNIX"NEW GUY"

2004-04-06 Thread putnam
I have installed bsd on an a pentium II machine and using the cd-rom. As of now it is no longer working properly I cannot finnish installing all of the cd's I purchasd. The cd-rom is 40x Delta "I think" model #OPC-K105/5 ST1. I am an art studdent with very littl knowledeg of c

Boot failure: CD-ROM problem [taskqueue stalled]

2004-04-05 Thread Ryan MacDonald
I have a system here that occasionally hangs while the kernel is booting. It happens as the CD-ROM drive is being initialized. Here's the error: acd0: WARNING - MODE_SENSE_BIG interrupt was seen but taskqueue stalled This doesn't happen every time - usually if I restart the system fol

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-29 Thread Randy Pratt
not sure what you mean by this. I've never had to wait for any > length of time to unmount a CD-ROM, however, you will not be able to > unmount it if you are currently in the directory that the drive is > mounted on;) > > > 2) security implications ?!! > > > > Item

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-29 Thread Joshua Lokken
uilding this system for my son (college student) ... > > > ... how to make the cd-rw & cd-rom devices > > > usable without requiring him to start a root shell and mount/umount these > > > devices. > > > > 1) Should I automount cd's? > > >

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-28 Thread Rob
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:04:43PM +0900, Rob wrote: What is this sysctl-black-magic about and where is more information? You're right that finding which sysctl is required to achieve whatever purpose can be tricky. Finding what sysctls exist is as easy as typing 'sysctl -a

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
g this system for my son (college student) ... > > > ... how to make the cd-rw & cd-rom devices > > > usable without requiring him to start a root shell and mount/umount these > > > devices. > > > > 1) Should I automount cd's? > &

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-28 Thread Jay Moore
On Sunday 28 March 2004 12:44 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:43, Jay Moore wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD 4.9 system; I am also running KDE... > > > > I'm building this system for my son (college student) ... > > ....... how to

Fwd: Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-28 Thread Malcolm Kay
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:20:36 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sunday 28 March 2004 17:34, Rob wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On S

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:04:43PM +0900, Rob wrote: > Remotely, I was following this discussion; I'm suprised by this solution > and I wonder how I ever would be able to find out myself about this > misterious > sysctl-magic. > > I did 'apropos usermount', 'man sysctl' and 'man sysctl.conf', an

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-28 Thread Rob
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:43, Jay Moore wrote: 2) What is the "best way" to allow ordinary users to mount cd's? The best way is inevitably a matter of opinion. But it can be done without installing any additional ports. First: # sysctl vfs.usermount=1 allows users to mount a

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
use it with a minimum of calls to tech support (me). One of the > issues I am struggling with is how to make the cd-rw & cd-rom devices > usable without requiring him to start a root shell and mount/umount these > devices. > ... > 1) Should I automount cd's? Depends what yo

Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-27 Thread Andy Miller
be able to > use it with a minimum of calls to tech support (me). One of the issues I am > struggling with is how to make the cd-rw & cd-rom devices usable without > requiring him to start a root shell and mount/umount these devices. > > There appear to be some KDE applications

automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

2004-03-27 Thread Jay Moore
the issues I am struggling with is how to make the cd-rw & cd-rom devices usable without requiring him to start a root shell and mount/umount these devices. There appear to be some KDE applications that support this, but they must be started with root permissions. I figured automounting cd'

Re: cd-rom drive on parallel port

2004-03-18 Thread UBM
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:45:39 +0100 Marc "UBM" Bocklet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hiho! :-) > > I've an old 8x cdrom that gets connected to a parallel port. It's > working under DOS 6.2 with a special driver but there is no sign of it > in the dmesg or anywhere else under FreeBSD 5.2.1. > >

cd-rom drive on parallel port

2004-03-12 Thread UBM
Hiho! :-) I've an old 8x cdrom that gets connected to a parallel port. It's working under DOS 6.2 with a special driver but there is no sign of it in the dmesg or anywhere else under FreeBSD 5.2.1. Is this kind of device supported under FreeBSD? I've checked the man pages and google, but found n

Boot CD-ROM error messages

2004-03-11 Thread Mark Ovens
/obj/usr/src/sys/REDSHIFT i386 TIA Regards, Mark - begin dmesg fragment - cd2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 cd2: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd2: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 16) cd2: cd present [229700 x 2048 byte records] (cd2:ahc0:0:5:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0

Re: FreeBSD 4.9: Installation: CD-ROM problems

2004-01-20 Thread Keith Kelly
ry 20, 2004 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD 4.9: Installation: CD-ROM problems >From the FreeBSD FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#NO-INSTALL-CDROM): -- 3.16. I booted from my ATAPI CDROM, but the install program says no

FreeBSD 4.9: Installation: CD-ROM problems

2004-01-19 Thread Keith Kelly
aster device! My configuration is as follows: - IDE1 master: hard drive - IDE1 slave: hard drive - IDE2 master: hard drive - IDE2 slave: CD-ROM drive I'm a long-time Windows user who has dabbled in Linux and hated a lot about it. After reading about FreeBSD, I'm really excited t

Re: problem whith cd-rom

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:17 am, golev wrote: > I'm having a problem under FreeBSD-5.1 > I can't mount cd-rom whith music ! > Thanks. You're not supposed to mount music CD's. Your CD-listening application should work fine as long as it knows which device repr

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