Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:12:05 -0400 From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> To: 'nathan' <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Installing on to a laptop with no CD-Rom. Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5BA@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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The thing is, on the laptop drive, power is supplied by the ribbon. The adapter has that white power plug on it to make it hook up like a regular ide drive. > -----Original Message----- > From: nathan [SMTP:beemern@telecom.ksu.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:26 PM > To: Person, Roderick > Cc: 'questions@FreeBSD.ORG' > Subject: Re: Installing on to a laptop with no CD-Rom. > > don't think you could "construct" one.. unless you have a LOT of patience (: > > seriously tho, i'm sure there's a store in the greater Pittsburgh area that > would have one. > the one i used didn't even have any 'logic' or anything on it, basically just > wired a "small" connector (for the laptop) to a "bigger" one for the standard > IDE cable. > > "Person, Roderick" wrote: > > seems like a simple solution. Where would I get a adapter to do this, > or would I have to construct it. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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