Re: A couple of bugs in the installation process

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

There are lots of people here who would be happy to do their darnedest
to help you resolve your problems, but at this point, all we can say
is "Works for me".  We have NO idea what you are running for
hardware...this makes troubleshooting basicly impossible. 

Describe your machine, your SCSI card, your main board, etc.  One
other user has reported some serious problems with a delay waiting for
the IDE devices to time out, this appeared to be a problem with his
main board, we pretty well narrowed it down to that, but
unfortunately, we couldn't fix it, so you may be stuck either living
with it or replacing the main board (or perhaps, using an IDE drive --
though I don't know what happens if you put a single IDE drive on this
board)  

As for not recognizing your CD-ROM, this may have to do with the
interface -- what kind of CD-ROM is it?  SCSI?  Again, we are back to
"What controller".  IDE?  Is the channel it is attached to enabled? 
Non-IDE?  OpenBSD doesn't support most (any?) non-SCSI, non-IDE
drives.

Give us some info, let's see if we can help you out.

Nick.

> Walter Gonzalez wrote:
> 
> I am kind of please with the autorun feature.... to this point
> everything is fine. The problem is that when OpenBSD try to detect
> the ide devices ( while I don't have any) it does not move on or
> determine that there are not ide devices..... I only have 2 scsi
> drives and I need the method to bypass this ide detection or
> something that will allowed me to go to whaever next step is.
> 
> As if it was not enough to wait the 30 min for the IDE detection now
> I can't choose to install from the cdrom simply because the process
> did not mount it. Guys, I realized that I am a windows guy but if
> you want to swing one way stick with it. I think that although an
> ignorant conclution at this point we need to get some things better
> define, and what I mean is that if everything is going to be
> manually install then so be it but if you are inplementing an
> automatic process for the installation method then follow the
> criteria....
> I have consider that my cdrom could be bad but mandrake encounter no
> problems while installing so I don't think that the cdrom is the
> problem.... So, I think my question is, how do I follow the
> instructions on the references provided when the installation proces
> did not provided for the cdrom mounting issue. Or how do I install
> this thing from the cdrom if the instructions on the quick reference
> card does not work....
> easy does it I'll bet....

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