Re: CD Drive "locked" during install, can't commit

2007-01-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, January 4, 2007 1:42 am, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:20, Richard Lynch wrote: >> Due to some hardware issues (not really relevant here) I've >> re-installed FreeBSD about 6 times in the last couple days. >> >> On one of those occasions, I managed to go through a s

Re: CD Drive "locked" during install, can't commit

2007-01-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 04 Jan Richard Lynch wrote: > At this point, however, Disk#2 was in the drive, not disk #1. > Alas, it kept trying to find base, man, dict, ports on /dev/acd0. > It wasn't there, because those are on Disk#1, not #2. > My laptop eject button would NOT work. > The installer wasn't letting me swap

Re: CD Drive "locked" during install, can't commit

2007-01-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:20, Richard Lynch wrote: > Due to some hardware issues (not really relevant here) I've > re-installed FreeBSD about 6 times in the last couple days. > > On one of those occasions, I managed to go through a sequence not > unlike this: > > 1. Standard fdisk/label stuff

CD Drive "locked" during install, can't commit

2007-01-03 Thread Richard Lynch
Due to some hardware issues (not really relevant here) I've re-installed FreeBSD about 6 times in the last couple days. On one of those occasions, I managed to go through a sequence not unlike this: 1. Standard fdisk/label stuff. 2. Custom install of base, kernel, ports tree (only) 3. Choose some