Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:42:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Craig Everett <CRAIG.A.EVERETT@cpmx.saic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA cdroms Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808222141560.20446-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35DC8F34.4D21@cpmx.saic.com>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Craig Everett wrote: > I have a PCMCIA cdrom drive that is installed in my c: partition(Win95). > When I boot from the FreeBSD install disk and try to install form cdrom > onto my d: partition, BSD can't detect the cdrom drive. I installed this > cdrom drive from DOS but it still won't recognize the drive. If you guys > have any suggestions I would love to hear them. thanks Your PCMCIA CDROM probably requires a special driver and is not supported by the standard boot floppy. Copy the installation files to the WIndows partition as directed in the instruction booklet then do a DOS install to copy the files from that partition. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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