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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:21:41 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From:      "Humprey C. Sy" <humprey@linux1.dlsu.edu.ph>
To:        "Andrzej M. J." <andreas@xmission.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATAPI CDROM
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.960309131554.22891B-100000@ccslinux.dlsu.edu.ph>
In-Reply-To: <199603071938.MAA28325@xmission.xmission.com>

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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





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