I did it and the CD drive worked, for a while.
The installer's output said that it recognized a device called "cd0"
and upon scanning for install sets on CD, found the CD drive.
I told it to install everything and it started.
It was almost done when I started getting I/O errors,
then I realized that this CD drive was one that I'd forgotten
to throw into the trash can, twice.
Soo, I get another drive, one that I'm pretty sure is working,
repeat, and now it works!

Now the hard part,
How do I make it useful?
((KDE, GUI stuff, etc., etc., etc.,....))

ShieldX


On Wednesday 14 January 2004 09:19 am, you wrote:
>The CD drive is a cheap IDE one and came out of a
>"canned" Compaq box that stopped working,
>I'll try swapping it out with another cheap drive that I have laying around.
>
>ShieldX
>
>On Wednesday 14 January 2004 03:10 am, you wrote:
>>On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, ShieldX wrote:
>>> Burned the CD off of a bought CD.
>>
>>That should be good, then, unless you did something really cool.
>>
>>> The CD is good, The cd drive is kind of a cheap one, though.
>>> Dmesg says, I think, roughly, that the CD drive was detected as SCSI
>>> and was treated as a hard drive and messed up,
>>> The partitioning section says that there's two hard drives, the only one
>>> that works is wd0, the other one is the messed up CD, it doesn't work,
>>> especially when the installer tries to partition it.
>>
>>I think 'messed up CD' is the watch word here.  I use OpenBSD on most of
>>my servers, and while it's solid, it can be a lot more finicky about
>>hardware than Linux is.
>>
>>If you've got a weird CD-ROM drive, try swapping it out if you can.   ONce
>>you've got it installed, you might be able to recompile the kernel to
>>support your weird drive, though since I don't know the specifics, I
>>can't say for sure.
>
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