From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 21:25:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFB815047 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA95271; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:55:00 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:55:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Soulofwolf899@cs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... Message-ID: <19991230155500.C1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: <0.8cf3908f.259c43d3@cs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <0.8cf3908f.259c43d3@cs.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 30 December 1999 at 0:12:51 -0500, Soulofwolf899@cs.com wrote: > To whom it concerns, > > I have just one question to ask before I decide to purchase 3.4 after I > return 3.3 to the software superstore where I purchased it... have you fixed > the damned installation error which prevents me from installing the software > with an APTAI CD-ROM? I don't know. > I am happy to give FreeBSD a chance to prove itself to me but I > cannot unless I can install it! If you have not fixed it in this > version then please keep my e-mail on file so you can notify me when > you have. Things don't quite work like that. ATAPI support is a lot better than it used to be, but we can't test every drive on the market, and there are some strange ones out there. In addition, you haven't even told us which model you have. > ps - after spending an hour of my time moving the blasted pin on my > CD-ROM to every possible combination, without of course the manual, > in order to make a "slave", I gave up and I have no desire to do it > again. Make sure to let me know when FreeBSD is as easy to install > as ANY of my LINUX packages; including RedHat 6.1 and TurboLinux 4. Now. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message