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.


-- 
Sam Mulvey <sm@vis.nu>
Have Device, Will Travel