From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 14 16:18:31 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA01950 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:18:31 -0800 Received: from vector.enet (vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.142.36]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA01832 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:10:21 -0800 Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.enet (8.6.10/8.6.9) id XAA20288; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 23:56:00 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 23:56:00 +0100 From: Julian Howard Stacey Message-Id: <199503142256.XAA20288@vector.enet> To: 100523.2153@compuserve.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PANASONIC CD-ROM support Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a 486 system with IDE disk and non SCSI > Panasonic CDROM > Is there any way to install to my system FreeBSD 2.0 ? YES ! Read the docs on the cd-rom, to read the rom, install dos, & a dos cd driver, then read in the docs you'll find by browsing the cdrom, also make a bindist directory on your dos fdisk partition, & read the files across from cd to hard disk. You'll also find that FreeBSD supports sl/ip, so if you ahve a 2nd 3/4/586 around, & it can run the cd-rom under dos or nt or something, with an ftp support software , thats another way ... or if you have a friend with an ethernet & a cd drive .. buy an ether card too, theyre very cheap now (~50 DM @ ~2.3 DM/Sterling or 1.7ish DM/$US) Julian S jhs@freebsd.org