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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