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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:00:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        csmith@northcoast.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New to FreeBSD.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960713085809.3438I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607130859.BAA28353@redwood.northcoast.com>

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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996 csmith@northcoast.com wrote:

> I just made the decission to go with FreeBSD over Linux.  

Good choice.

> I was able to get version 2.0.5, 2 CD-rom set.  

Ack.  If you can hang on for a couple of weeks 2.1.5 will be out.  

> Ok, I have made the boot 
> disk, and when I tell it to use the Media of CDROM, it says that the 
> device is not to be found.  I just installed a new CD-rom drive, and it 
> is using an Interface card, since it doesn't seem to like going through 
> an EIDE card, as a slave or primary drive..  Ok, is there away around 
> this, I have looked on other sites, and have seen a driver for the APADI 
> (sp) IDE driver support.  Will this work, not ready to try it yet.  

2.0.5 did not support ATAPI CDs.  2.1.0 and later does.  

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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