Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 09:49:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: spp@vx.com (Stephen Potter) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs Message-ID: <199504200749.JAA06975@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <9504192356.ZM14073@squid> from "Stephen Potter" at Apr 19, 95 11:56:54 pm
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> > I can't seem to find anything specific in any of the FAQs I've read, so I'm > going to try here... > > Does FreeBSD 2.0 support ATAPI/IDE CDs or not? I recently bought the No. You can either wait for the release of the 2.1 CD or ....... > FreeBSD CDrom from WC and am trying to install it on an AcerPower Pentium > 60 (the 8879? model) with a Mitsumi IDE CD. I don't see anywhere in the > startup files that it can support that drive. Is it possible to pull > certain parts of it off to my DOS slice (bin, compilers, and source, I .... you - I see you have a DOS partition - copy the distribution parts (bin, src) to your DOS partition, then boot FreeBSD (which may be a minimum version at that time) , mount the DOS partition and install the rest. > suppose), install them and build a new kernel to handle the drive, or I am > just basically out of luck with the drive? > > Steve > PS: Sorry I'm not more up on my PC jargon, but I work with "real" machines > (Suns and SGIs) on a regular basis. PCs are a new hobby I'm starting on, > and I want a real OS (FreeBSD or Linux or both...) instead of just > DOS/Windoze. > > -- > Stephen P Potter spp@vx.com Varimetrix Corporation > 2350 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 4 Palm Bay, FL 32905 > (407) 676-3222 CAD/CAM/CAE/Software > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #2: Tue Apr 11 20:03:36 MET DST 1995 root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386
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