Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-10 Thread Leslie Jensen
Nick Holland skrev 2010-11-10 03:02: On 11/09/10 13:02, Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2010-11-09 18:00, Nick Holland wrote: On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote: ... Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64 installation CD. ... Then comes the question of installation

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-10 Thread Martin Toft
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:24:29AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.eskk.nu/gallery/?album=/bios/picture=IMAG0115.jpgfullsize=0 Please advise me on what you think would be the best setting. Keeping in mind that I do not want to corrupt data on the hard drive. A year ago I used a Dell

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-10 Thread Anders Trobäck
Den Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:21:56 +0100 skrev Martin Toft m...@martintoft.dk: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:24:29AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: http://www.eskk.nu/gallery/?album=/bios/picture=IMAG0115.jpgfullsize=0 Please advise me on what you think would be the best setting. Keeping in mind

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-10 Thread Marco Peereboom
Here is my trusty E6500 that I have used for 2 years now. OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sat Nov 6 16:13:55 CDT 2010 r...@e6500.peereboom.us:/usr/src/kernel/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 3707031552 (3535MB) avail mem = 3594448896 (3427MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at

SOLVED Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-10 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-11-10 11:14, Anders Trobdck wrote: I'm running 4.8 on a E6500 and my cd are working just fine but I'm using the AHCI mode! Br/Anders Thank you all who replied, with you help I have managed to solve my problem. :-) With a lot of fiddeling with Win7 after Goggle had found people

OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hello list. I'm quite new to OpenBSD, have made one installation in Virtualbox plus an installation on a USB stick on a 32-bit pc. Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64 installation CD. The machine Dell Latitude E6500 is currently running Win7 plus FreeBSD 8.1

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-09 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Try with hard disk in when you are ready to install OpenBSD? There was a thread recently where the drive mappings change with USB sticks, based on which USB slot its inserted into. So based on that, I would infer, don't try to install to USB. You want your OS to boot regularly based on known

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-09 Thread Joe McDonagh
On my e4300 I had to mess with the ATA operation mode to get it to even boot the cd... On 11/09/2010 10:37 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: Hello list. I'm quite new to OpenBSD, have made one installation in Virtualbox plus an installation on a USB stick on a 32-bit pc. Now I want to make an

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote: ... Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64 installation CD. ... Then comes the question of installation media and the choices are ftp http or done. I can do the installation via http so I'm ok. But I am wondering how do I do

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-09 Thread roberth
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:00:28 -0500 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote: It seems, for unknown reasons, there's something odd about your computer, and OpenBSD is not recognizing the CDROM. sata dvd drive? haven't seen any yet that do not

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-09 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-11-09 18:00, Nick Holland wrote: On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote: ... Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64 installation CD. ... Then comes the question of installation media and the choices are ftp http or done. I can do the installation via

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/09/10 13:02, Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2010-11-09 18:00, Nick Holland wrote: On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote: ... Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64 installation CD. ... Then comes the question of installation media and the choices are ftp http