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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:48:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mstbase@aol.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Free BSD and IDE Drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960424104653.4703C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <960423154108_278886614@emout07.mail.aol.com>

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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996 Mstbase@aol.com wrote:

> 1. I have a Panasonic/Matsushita CR-574-B IDE CDROM.  Is there any way that I
> can install Free BSD with this CDROM?  I tried copying the files to the hard
> disk and doin the DOS install but it told me I have to set up drive mappings
> first even though no software is installed to do that yet.

This should work just fine, if you use the ATAPI.FLP image for the boot 
floppy.

> 2. I do have a successful installation that I did on another PC with an
> adaptec SCSI CDROM.  Is there a way to make the dos drives visible to unix?

Turn that machine into a FTP server and put the cdrom in the anonymous 
area.  Then turn make FTP "retry" instead of "abort" and point it at that 
machine.

> 3. Is there a way to use windows for workgroups to network to a Free BSD
> system?

Use samba.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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