Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:59:57 -0800 From: James Billingham <James_Billingham@mentorg.com> To: "'freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Driver support for MicroSolutions CD-RIM Message-ID: <01BE1F64.78412B00.James_Billingham@mentorg.com>
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I purchased and installed a copy of freeBSD 2.2.5 from the CD-ROM enclosed
in the "UNIX System Administrator's Bible" by Yves Lepage and Paul Iarrera,
pub. by IDG Books.
I finally was able to install FreeBSD on my laptop, after partially
overcoming a significant obstacle: My laptop has an external CD-ROM Drive
(via LPT1 and printer cable connection): MicroSolutions Bantam Backpack
CD-ROM Drive.
This device does not seem to be on the list of supported devices with my
FreeBSD documentation.
I have installed a fraction of the core packages and other files from the
CD via XCOPY to my DOS partition on the hard drive, then using the setup
and install programs from DOS to install the kernel, packages, etc. to my
UNIX partition of the hard drive. However, neither XCOPY nor Windows95
copy command can copy some of the files with special characters in the
filenames.
Therefore, I have several questions in an attempt to get more out of my
distribution copy of FreeBSD:
1. Is there currently FreeBSD-compatible driver for this Drive?
a. If so, how do I obtain and install it?
b. If not, is there some "mostly compatible" driver and/or
procedure which would allow me to access my CD-ROM drive directly from
UNIX?
2. Is there some other method by which I can transfer more files from
my CD-ROM to the UNIX partition on my hard drive?
3. Do you have any other suggestions for getting more out of my
FreeBSD under these conditions?
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