From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Dec 4 09:00:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23891 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:00:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay1.wv.mentorg.com (relay1.mentorg.com [192.94.38.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23879 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from James_Billingham@mentorg.com) Received: from em-wv03.wv.mentorg.com by relay1.wv.mentorg.com (8.8.8/CF5.40F) id IAA21368; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:59:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from quest by em-wv03.wv.mentorg.com (8.8.8/CF5.40R) id IAA22735; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:59:58 -0800 Message-ID: <01BE1F64.78412B00.James_Billingham@mentorg.com> From: James Billingham Reply-To: "James_Billingham@mentorg.com" To: "'freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Driver support for MicroSolutions CD-RIM Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:59:57 -0800 Organization: Mentor Graphics X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message