From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 11:21:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA04694 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:21:28 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA04686 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:21:23 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA25875; Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:14:57 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504201814.AA25875@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs To: spp@vx.com (Stephen Potter) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:14:56 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504201242.ZM778@squid> from "Stephen Potter" at Apr 20, 95 12:42:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ ... ATAPI/IDE CDROM drive not supported ... ] > Thanks to all who have explained the situation to me. I think what I'll go > ahead and do is return the FreeBSD 2.0 CD to WC, and wait for 2.1. Kind of > depresssing actually, I was hoping to be able to use it. However, the > CD->DOS->install won't work too well for me, as I don't have a lot of extra > hard drive space, having now made partitions for FreeBSD, DOS, and Linux. That's too bad... I was going to suggest you conatct Soren, who is doing the code, and be one of his beta testers. The resulting boot disks should allow you to install from CDROM with no problems. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.