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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 1996 18:03:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu>
To:        john@starfire.mn.org
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: detailed instructions for dial-up PPP installation?
Message-ID:  <199610082303.SAA00435@plethora.cs.wustl.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610080342.WAA13725@starfire.mn.org>
References:  <199610080010.TAA29135@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> <199610080342.WAA13725@starfire.mn.org>

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Hello,

<john@starfire.mn.org> writes:
> James wrote:
>> HARDWARE.TXT
>> INSTALL.TXT
>> KNOWNBUG.TXT
>> README.TXT
>> RELNOTES.TXT
> I should also have mentioned that I read all of these, and INSTALL.TXT
> has a rather cursory and superficial description of what to do --
> sort of on the order of a summary, but no details.  I did look
> there, first.

What didn't you understand?  I am sure that the FreeBSD team want
input on this.  It is not their intention to leave newcomers to
FreeBSD confused.

>> Otherwise, I believe the ATAPI driver wants the CDROM drive to
>> be the slave drive of the secondary IDE controller (a second IDE
>> controller running on irq 15).
> Hmmm.  Anyway to get it to look at a slave drive on the PRIMARY
> controller???  If we could get that working, it'd be best for us.

I don't know of a way to do this.  Perhaps someone on the FreeBSD team
can provide you with a boot floppy set in this manner?

-- James



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