From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 03:46:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A268C37B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 03:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocado.salatschuessel.net (avocado.salatschuessel.net [80.86.187.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E858643F93 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 03:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: (qmail 88275 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 10:46:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dill.salatschuessel.net) (80.132.179.156) by avocado.salatschuessel.net with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 4 May 2003 10:46:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 41279 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 10:46:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kartoffel.salatschuessel.net) (10.0.1.51) by dill.salatschuessel.net with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 4 May 2003 10:46:39 -0000 Received: from kartoffel.salatschuessel.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h44AkaAZ028519; Sun, 4 May 2003 12:46:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 12:46:35 +0200 From: Oliver Lehmann To: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <20030504124635.1a13ebbd.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <3EB47563.58841D21@mindspring.com> References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> <20030504014858.GA23099@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> <3EB47563.58841D21@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11cvs38 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 10:46:58 -0000 Terry Lambert wrote: > You need to buy Adaptec controllers; they can boot CDROMs. yeah.. the Controller exchange drive A with your cdrom. So it looks like your cd-rom is a floppy drive and you can boot from. But when you are in sysinstall. You can't choose install from cd-rom - because you don't have a cdrom... just a floppy... you see how fscking this is? Greetings, Olli -- Oliver Lehmann @home: lehmann@ans-netz.de @office: oliver.lehmann@mgi.de @www: http://www.pofo.de/ | http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/