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Date:      Sun, 04 May 2003 12:03:00 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Floppy Support
Message-ID:  <3EB563E4.4797B5CB@mindspring.com>
References:  <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> <20030504014858.GA23099@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> <20030504124635.1a13ebbd.lehmann@ans-netz.de>

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Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > You need to buy Adaptec controllers; they can boot CDROMs.
> 
> yeah.. the Controller exchange drive A with your cdrom. So it looks like
> your cd-rom is a floppy drive and you can boot from. But when you are in
> sysinstall. You can't choose install from cd-rom - because you don't have
> a cdrom... just a floppy... you see how fscking this is?

Never had that problem with my AHA1742 and my Toshiba CDROM...
like I said before: you need to buy a different controller.

-- Terry



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