I have attempted to do the install these 2 different ways now. I have a
Lex light system that has 2 ide controlers, one with a 44 pin header,
and one with a 40 pin. I can hook up both a cdrom (that I have in an
external enclosure that provides power) and the laptop hard drive. I
ran the install and then moved the hard drive over to the FX5620 and
tried to boot it. Because of the differences in hard drive controller
names, it couldn't mound the root drive, I spent a couple hours trying
to find a kernel switch like root=/dev/ad0 or something like that, but I
think the problem must be with the fstab file, which I will try editing
next.
I also ordered a 44 pin master slave cable, and then realized I would
have no way of hooking that up to my 40 pin cdrom. So I ordered a 40 to
44 pin cable, plus a Male to Male 44 pin adapter so I could hook
everything together. So the 44 pin master/slave cable is plugged into
the FX5620, and I tried plugging in the 44 to 40 pin into each of it's
female connectors, and then into the cdrom, but neither has worked. No
ide devices are detected. Just using the 44 pin to 40 pin adapter to
plug the cdrom in works just fine. I don't know what I am missing
here. Anyone else had any luck with something like this. Is there a
certain cable setup that works?
Josh
Holger Bauer wrote:
Either use the embedded image with a cf-card or install the hdd in a different
system and move it over. A third option would be to use the device with a
master slave cable and install from a temporarily connected cdrom. However I
guess you have to power the cdrom from a different system then. Also the
different IDE cable types might make problems. Not sure as I unfortunately
haven't seen such a system yet.
Holger
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Stompro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 11:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] USB Cdrom install is not working
Scott, how do you do a hard drive install on an FX5620? I am a little stumped
since USB cdrom's don't work and the system only has one IDE header? Do I
have to install with a 2nd system and then move the hard drive over?
Thanks
Josh
Scott Ullrich wrote:
Well, I always have to do this... Its part of maintaing a system.
Lots of things are a PITA, this is computers. Welcome.
On 3/23/06, Roy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For units like the Lex Light system or the little firewall unit you were
talking about on http://pfsense.blogspot.com/ the USB CDrom is a much
easier route then having to crack the unit open and plug in a IDE cdrom
since you have to power the cdrom off another system's power supply.
Really is a pain in the A$$.
Roy
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