From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 14:35:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA10849 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA10832 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:35:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA13211; Tue, 7 May 96 21:35:06 GMT Message-Id: <9605072135.AA13211@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA242624908; Tue, 7 May 1996 15:35:08 -0600 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 15:35:08 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: proxim@ix.netcom.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605071907.MAA04868@dfw-ix1.ix.netcom.com> (proxim@ix.netcom.com) Subject: Re: My cd-rom Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander M Kozlov writes: Alexander> FreeBSD doesn't support the Teac CD-55a. Ok, I am Alexander> willing to do a DOS installation. Can I copy everything Alexander> from the CD-ROMs onto a DOS partition of 1 GB or so and Alexander> install from that? Sure. That's how I first installed FreeBSD years ago. You don't even need 1GB of DOS space. Instead, you could just copy the essential distributions to your DOS slice and then install. Get FreeBSD up and running. When you want to add the other things, remove the old FreeBSD files from DOS and copy yet more new files from the CD-ROM. Alexander> After I install, will it be just like if I had Alexander> installed everything from the CDs? Yes. Alexander> Will I get all the applications? As many as you take the time to install. Alexander> Most importantly, will FreeBSD support my CD-ROM drive Alexander> after it has been installed? Probably not. If it doesn't work during the install, it probably won't work once you're up and running. What kind of CD-ROM is the Teac CD-55a? If it's on a Mitsumi or SCSI connector, you probably can use it immediately, so you should install from it directly rather than from DOS. If that's the case, let's try to figure out what the problem might be. If it's an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM, then it might work, but it might not, due to the unstable nature of the IDE CD-ROM software driver and the fact that there's so much variation in IDE CD-ROM hardware. Anyway, if it is IDE, try to find a relative recent version of atapi.flp that you can use in place of boot.flp. Does anyone have a current version of atapi.flp that Alexander can try? -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/