Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:00:47 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Field <tom@nautilus.eng.orgella.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI IDE CDROM Drives Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.980211085656.2134A-100000@tlf.eng.orgella.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210194618.29893f-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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I will look into getting the updated book, but can you give me a hint on how to get the ATAPI IDE CDROM drives to work? Tom Field On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tom Field wrote: > > > > > > > I am sure that this question has been asked before, but I am new to this, > > but my son and I are attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 and we have an > > ATAPI IDE CDROM drive. Greg Lehey's Running FreeBSD 2.1 says to use > > /cdrom/floppies/atapi.flp to create the boot disk. Unfortunately, we have > > been unable to find that file on the cdrom. > > Yipe! Running FreeBSD is ancient, and it was wrong even when it was > published because of that atapi.flp bogon. atapi.flp died way back in the > 2.1.5 days. > > I'd suggest buying ``The Complete FreeBSD, 2nd Edition'' from Walnut Creek > and bring yourself up to date document-wise :) > > 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 questions" in the body of the message
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