Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 11:29:58 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <20030504182958.A05C147@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20030504124635.1a13ebbd.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > yeah.. the Controller exchange drive A with your cdrom. So it looks like > your cd-rom is a floppy drive and you can boot from. But when you are in > sysinstall. You can't choose install from cd-rom - because you don't have > a cdrom... just a floppy... you see how fscking this is? I don't understand your statement. I haven't had any problems for a long time running sysinstall from a CD-ROM I've just booted from, either SCSI or IDE[0] I seem to recall some very old distros having this problem, but I haven't seen it since 2000 or so. Cheers, AS [0] with the exception of an ancient 2X PC-Card CD-ROM on a Gateway ColorBook II that could not used from FreeBSD (least, I could never get it usable, although it probed and attached apparently correctly). [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+tVwmPHh895bDXeQRAsKlAKCbISOt71SgW1xTciTe1z9K2UQrywCgv366 f23YXifAfH82lvdbRoR0IiE= =gATD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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