Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 15:35:08 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: proxim@ix.netcom.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My cd-rom Message-ID: <9605072135.AA13211@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199605071907.MAA04868@dfw-ix1.ix.netcom.com> (proxim@ix.netcom.com)
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>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander M Kozlov <proxim@ix.netcom.com> 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/
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