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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:00:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Field <tom@nautilus.eng.orgella.com>
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Subject: Re: ATAPI IDE CDROM Drives
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I will look into getting the updated book, but can you give me a hint on
how to get the ATAPI IDE CDROM drives to work? 

Tom Field 


On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tom Field wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I am sure that this question has been asked before, but I am new to this,
> > but my son and I are attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 and we have an
> > ATAPI IDE CDROM drive. Greg Lehey's Running FreeBSD 2.1 says to use
> > /cdrom/floppies/atapi.flp to create the boot disk. Unfortunately, we have
> > been unable to find that file on the cdrom.
> 
> Yipe! Running FreeBSD is ancient, and it was wrong even when it was
> published because of that atapi.flp bogon. atapi.flp died way back in the
> 2.1.5 days.
> 
> I'd suggest buying ``The Complete FreeBSD, 2nd Edition'' from Walnut Creek
> and bring yourself up to date document-wise :)
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 
> 


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