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.