by > Hi,
> i have a K6-2 based PC. i had troubles installing FreeBSD 3.0 from cheapbytes
> CDROM which is an IDE/ATAPI cdrom. other OSs (Win98,RH 5.2, Solaris 7) had no
> problems recognizing the CDROM. the CDROM is connected as master to the
> secondary IDE controller. but FreeBSD 3.0, though it boots with the CDROM,
> does not find the secondary IDE controller (wcd1 :irq 15 at port 0x170 is not
> found).
> so i copied the contents of the CDROM to the win 98 partition and was able
> to install freebsd successfully. but right now i am having problems installing
> the packages. strange is that some packges (jpeg, ..) were found while some
> others (xpm, ..) were not found. an error message says, that package xpm could
> not be extracted from the selected media.
> any help in making FreeBSD recognize the secondary iDE controller (and the
> CDROM) or install all the packages from Win98 partition, is much appreciated.
> tia
in Options change the version to FreeBSD-current hit Q then go to
Packages and use the main ftp server. You should have no problems now.
If you still have problems you may have to download the package and use
pkg_add to install.
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Ted Sikora
http://tsikora.tiac.net