Hello,
[SOLVED] Go to sysinstall options and select Rescan Devices [*]. This worked well.
I have a laptop with a broken dvd drive, so I disconnected it and am using a usb dvd drive for the installation.
The FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE dvd boots fine but shortly after I have set up the partitions and am choosing which media the installation packages are on, sysinstall tells me that it cannot find the cdrom.
It seems that sysinstall is hard coded to look for /dev/acd0 rather than /dev/cd0 but as I recall, I have installed FreeBSD on my thinkpad fine with the same usb dvd drive. Could it be that sysinstall looks for /dev/acd0 first before /dev/cd0 but then aborts if /dev/acd0 is not found regardless?
Does anyone have any solutions to get FreeBSD installing via the DVD on this usb dvd drive?
I believe this may be related to...
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9020
Best Regards,
Karsten
[SOLVED] Go to sysinstall options and select Rescan Devices [*]. This worked well.
I have a laptop with a broken dvd drive, so I disconnected it and am using a usb dvd drive for the installation.
The FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE dvd boots fine but shortly after I have set up the partitions and am choosing which media the installation packages are on, sysinstall tells me that it cannot find the cdrom.
It seems that sysinstall is hard coded to look for /dev/acd0 rather than /dev/cd0 but as I recall, I have installed FreeBSD on my thinkpad fine with the same usb dvd drive. Could it be that sysinstall looks for /dev/acd0 first before /dev/cd0 but then aborts if /dev/acd0 is not found regardless?
Does anyone have any solutions to get FreeBSD installing via the DVD on this usb dvd drive?
I believe this may be related to...
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9020
Best Regards,
Karsten