From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 21:19:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA20312 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 21:19:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccslinux.dlsu.edu.ph (humprey@linux1.dlsu.edu.ph [165.220.8.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA20284 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 21:19:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from humprey@localhost) by ccslinux.dlsu.edu.ph (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA23042; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:21:44 +0800 Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:21:41 +0800 (GMT+0800) From: "Humprey C. Sy" To: "Andrzej M. J." cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI CDROM In-Reply-To: <199603071938.MAA28325@xmission.xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The still insufficient support of FreeBSD for IDE CDROM drives is still one of the major headaches for some people (I'm sure there are a lot others) like me. Imagine having a CDROM drive and not being able to directly install from that CD. Imagine having to still copy files from the CDROM to disk to be able to install FreeBSD. - Humprey - On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Andrzej M. J. wrote: > Hi, > I did buy a few days ago FreeBSD 2.1 from WALNUT CREEK. > When I try to install it, I can see the kernel recognize my secondary > EIDE controler, where is connected my CDROM ("NEC MultiSpin 4v" as > master) but it can't recognize my CDROM drive (yes, CD is inside the > drive). The CD drive work propertly with LINUX, WIN-NT, WIN-95 and > DOS. > I don't have room on DOS partition to copy installation files from > the FreeBSD CDROM and I don't have tape backup, so I can't remove > it temporary. > > Please give me some sugestions. > Thanks, Andre