Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:31:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Simon Duffield <simond@towtech.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation from CD-ROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729092931.8468H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33DE08E1.593E@towtech.demon.co.uk>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Simon Duffield wrote: > Hopefully just a quick question! > > When installing FreeBSD, can this be done from an Enhanced IDE CD-ROM, > or does it have to be a SCSI device? Although it involves sacrificing small animals, you might be able to convice FreeBSD to talk to your IDE CDROM. The interface is horribly flakey and it may or may not work. The best thing to do is to try it. You can check to see if you got it by pressing ALT-F2 at the menu. If it says 'found a device of type CDROM' then you're good. Otherwise, try moving your CDROM to the slave device on your primary controller. Needless to say, the SCSI CDROMs probe flawlessly. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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